Hi all..

Has anyone ever had to review their own work as part of a literature review in a paper they are writing for publication and cited themselves?

I'm trying to finish up something for publication and have to review my own work. Strange thing is i have to read it all again to see how it differs from everyone else. I have considered the possibility of ignoring it because it is me writing and therefore should not have to acknowledge my work but thought that there might be a gap there..

what would you do? would you cite it or ignore it?

J.

and am so pleased to hear that Charls passed despite having about 100 typos and starting prep 2 weeks before and taking 1 week off before.. really encouraging!

am definitely taking a week off work... hope i can get the date soon enough to be able to do that. i hope its in December and not January. fingers crossed.

should get some toast..

haha. needless to say... i passed out after a while and found myself asleep in the library yesterday....

but i did manage to get chapter 3 done today. i should start on ch. 4 and see if i can get something done. its hard juggling work, part time studies and viva prep. but so far so good.. am halfway there and achieving my aim of familiarising myself with my thesis.

I would give chapter 3 a mark of 4. 4 because it was good but i felt it lacked the wow factor.. and i wondered if my analysis of a concept i introduced could have been a lot more thorough.. am working on an answer to that.:$ i couldn't be more thorough due to my lack of experience of that particular thing! :-( need to find a way of getting round that.

ch. 4 had better be good.

Congratulations Charls! that's such a positive account!

Please pm me the 40 questions. am also struggling juggling work and viva prep. I don't have a date yet but am hoping its sometime before mid December.

i will definitely take a week off work!

J.

i've just come back from work. am very tired... but i need to put in some hours into the thesis today to keep moving.. todays plan to read ch. 3 & 4.

todays motivation quote from my phd experience - you don't need to feel like working to get work done.

hopefully once i get started... will feel less tired. besides i need my brain, not my body to read....

all the best to me. :-)

did nothing last night! but am on it today.. only for a friend to pay me a random visit. seriously :-(... anyhow.. hopefully will manage that and be back at it later.

good news is i've got to page 100! how on earth did i write so much?????????????? :-) i still have to read through two hundred more pages. the aim of the initial read through is to remember the work and i.d. and address typos as well as produce a list of them. hopefully i should be done with that by sunday and then i can read the thesis again summarising each chapter... and then hopefully the following week get more critical and summarise contributions methodology etc.

i have not heard about my examination date yet. am very tempted to ask... but on the other hand wonder if its best to wait until at least i've read the entire thesis and know what its all about so i don't panic? lol. it could be anyday now... its become very scary checking my email. i will email on monday though to ask about the date.. sigh.

hope everyone's preparation is going well.

:-)

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@biddy - congratulations! am well happy for you! great to hear that if i know my stuff i'll be fine.. will definitely try to know the stuff i cut out by heart!

I've started reading chapter 3 now after taking sunday off and spending monday at work. so far so good, nothing majorly exciting. in fact, a concern. i attached an incomplete appendix to the thesis before submission. i said it was incomplete and i hope that covers me. my problem is it has enough typos on it - like 5 of them! i must have been way too tired doing it. :$ ah well..

anyhow.. time to leave this library now and head for home where i'll do further reading. i've also avoided being on facebook 24/7, reduced friends time and don't pick phones when working on thesis so hopefully that will increase output. its definitely focussed my mind more. today after getting up at noon, i made it to the library where i managed some work on the other course am doing :-( and some reading on the thesis. am well pleased with that. :-)

but am even more pleased with my electronic acquarium (sp) that I bought on my way to uni. impluse buying! well i deserve a treat after all my hard work. i plan on placing it at my study desk at home. 8-)

am off! back later tonight.

J.

all the best Rory! :-)

nice!(up)

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thanks for the reassurance Bilbo. I was going to take print outs.

otherwise, i have finished reading ch.2 - the theoretical framework - the first half is really interesting and the second half feels long and boring. i don't know if its because my enthusiasm was dampened by the discovery of errors in the diagram. therefore my rating of chapter 2 will be:

Ch. 1 = 5* 8-)
Ch. 2 = 3.5 :-(

time to do something different before getting back to it. :-)

aside from a few typos, i've discovered a blank page in my thesis - between two chapters! -:$ and a diagram which cut out some of the text. :-( :-( :-(

for those who have done their vivas, am not too worried about the blank page, but am quite concerned about the diagram. do you think its gonna be a problem that some text is missing. am happy to take a revised diagram to the viva and to have a typo free copy of the thesis in my usb at the viva. before the diagram i explain what is in the diagram so examiners should not have a hard time guessing what was there. the thesis has already been sent out, so i definitely can't chase it up and submit new copies.

any advice?

J.

time for tea break.8-)

@kikuka - Lara will give you the questions as they are hers... ;-)

So glad to be back! sigh.. so the update.

2 days ago (Wednesday) did nothing when my friends unexpectedly turned up and expected me to go shopping with them all day! clearly, i'd forgotten to deal with this area of my life. the last 6 weeks have taken a toll on the hibernation mode of phd years.

Yesterday.. worked all day, but managed to squeeze in three quarters of Ch.2. got to pg. 54. hopefully i can finish it today.

Today.. worked all morning then bought some house essentials. i feel so tired after carrying boxes all morning. i plan on taking a nap first before getting on with it. hopefully managed to finish ch. 2 & 3 today...... and hopefully no more typo discoveries.

J.

Sneaks - i like that. :-)

if its any encouragement Florence... i restarted my phd after 3 years and managed to read again and write a whole new phd in around 1yr 9 months. i wasn't always disciplined in this time. so it's all about attitude. you don't have to restart like in my case, so you could do this in a year.. just stay positive and really go for it. give your all into it and be POSITIVE about feedback. instead of seeing how crap you are and how crap the work is, just think am gonna make the most of this second chance and see it as a challenge rather than an indication of your ability. the initial chapters took me the longest because i was not confident, but after you have two chapters, you will be fine.