[quote]Quote From sneaks:

I have loads of little changes, but also about 6 HUGE structural ones e.g. changing the whole layout and argument of the lit review /quote]

Sneaks, I think your supvervisor and mine read the same supervisor handbookl! I have the same to do as you except that it's my findings and analysis that I have to turn on its head. To be fair I can see how it will be [much] better but it's a bit 11th hour
:-(

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ooooh, brilliant, thank you, I'll send you an email address now:-)

Edit: I always have an edit! Voted you helpful user so hence the star 8-)

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Thanks everyone, Corinne, Dunni, KB, Florence, everyone :-). Having read supervisor-related comments on this forum mine is a pet really. It's just he came back to me with major restructuring comments after having my draft for 8 weeks when he originally said he would have it back to me in 2! If I had gotten these comments a few weeks ago I probably would have been better equipped to deal with them. It's a similar situ I think to Sneaks' supv and her comments at the 11th hour. To be fair mine reads everything as an external examiner would and as he has been external examiner for a lot of people's theses he does know what he is talking about and I do trust him. I just wish I had gotten all this earlier!

Corinne, KB, Dunni - you guys have all done brilliantly and you all deserve to give yourselves a pat on the back. I take my inspiration from all of you doctors :-x and hope that I can join the club at the other side of the fence soon.

@Dunni, make sure you keep a firm hand on the children and don't let them get packaged up into any boxes. 'Relocation, Relocation' always makes those major house moves look so easy. At least you're not likely to have Kirstie and Phil popping back for a cup of tea and a status update complete with TV cameras!!

Hi Dunni and Florence

Thanks for your words of support, much appreciated and very much needed at the moment.

Sorry for posting such a negative comment but I think I sank just about as far as I could go wth this darn PhD yesterday and today. A series of emails with phrases like 'expand to higher analytical level..., don't like the structure, not working as it is...' had me tearing up, literally :$. I was hoping to submit at the end of August but that's not going to happen. Feel a bit better today after marathon supv meeting but I have a ton of re-structuring to do over the next few weeks to get it in by the end of September. No new writing really but have to move, re-structure and make those darn links to and from sections which as we all know are an absolute curse - or is that just me?

If I had been offered MPhil yesterday I would have taken it! I truly felt that I just don't have 'it', whatever 'it' is that is required to submit. Today I'm a bit more philosophical so fingers crossed...

Good luck Florence, I hope yours is coming together but if not, take your advice to me and share :-)

@Dunni, have you got your house all packed and labelled in boxes yet? Don't envy you that job but I would do that for you if you come and finish my thesis ;-)

Was hoping that somebody might be able to access paper for me from Sage - I can't go back further than 1998 recently.

Russell, C.K, Gregory, D.M. and Gates, M.F. (1996) Aesthetics and substance in qualitative research posters. Qualitative Health Research, 6, (4), 542-552.

Thank you :-)

that's really good interesting advice Rick - thanks, you've set me thinking...:-)(up)

I completely, utterly and totally despair of finding a way to get this done:-(

and I can get the 3rd one, biomass and productivity... pm your email if you want the pdf

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Mine (at the mo, pending green light to submit from supv) is 263 pages and my bib is a further 23 pages

Edit: sorry should have added, it's 1.5 line spacing

Terrific news Dr. Keebean, well done - enjoy the celebrations 8-)

Stumbled across a paper and thought I'd pass it on - short (~6 pages) article on recent 3-day writing and publishing postgrad workshop. If not for anything else it has good refs in relation to writing, publishing, co-authorship etc etc :-). I can forward it on if anybody wants it but can't access it.

Burgoine, T., Hopkins, P., Rech, M.R. and Zapata, G.P. (2011) 'These kids can't write abstracts': reflections on a postgraduate writing and publishing workshop. Area, 43, (3), 1-7

DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2011.01030.x

Okay I know very little about your particular field (read nothing!) but if you're just a week into your studies your supervisor will hardly expect you to have read anything in too much depth. Lots of people cast their net far too widely at the beginning of their work [and their lit review] and generally it's only with extensive reading that you are able to locate yourself in the field. It might be an idea to divide up what you have gathered into themes or areas and try to formulate a bigger picture of how you see your work fitting into the existing extant literature.

agree with all the others - def ignore her and her emails. She seems to have tunnel vision and obviously never filters her requests or demands before she sends them. She needs to tell you 'x' so she does, no matter what else you may have on your plate like the little matter of a viva! Best of luck tomorrow and I'll be keeping an eye on here as well to see how you do - brilliantly I'm sure (up)

No worries - one sent, the other seems to be having a think about it but it will go through, eventually!