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Hi Determined Daisy

Welcome to the thread, good to have you :-).

Many of us are working towards a similar deadline to you and it's good to know that we all seem to have similar fears. I have a deadline of this Friday; self-imposed as it was me who suggested that I would return work to my supv. So far this morning I've worked very hard - eh, stripped a few beds, done five loads of washing and watched a lot of tennis:$. It's kinda bitty work thesis-wise I have as in insert a couple of lines here and there to beef up some paragraphs. I also have a table to do as I don't think the external will be impressed, or indeed taken in by my note to self to insert table 2.1 about here! However, I just can't get into it.

I'll watch 'til the end of the first set and then get on with what I'm supposed to be doing!

I've done it for my masters thesis but I drew them myself via GIS. I have a couple in my PhD thesis as well but again, I did them myself. Is there a GIS person who might be willing to give you a hand?

Otherwise copyright issues really apply to everything, including OS maps. At the very least you should request permission. Normally educational research is looked favourably on.

paper lady, that's me at the moment :$

I can get you the AIP articles. However, numbers 2 and 3 above are dupes so I'll only be sending 3.

You still need the ScienceDirect and Springer articles

sure, I can get it

I can get it for you if you want to send me your email

Hi Gio

Seems to be my day for sourcing papers! I can get it - pm me your email address :-)

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Hi Ian

I can get the 3 of them if you want to pm your email I'll send you the pdfs

A

Edit 22.20 - on their way to you now :-)

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Hi Pink

I'm of a similar mindset! I too have 'fixed' about 70% of what my supv advised; the other 30% I tried but I just didn't feel it was working the way he wants it to. I have skimmed numerous theses on a myriad of topics and my approach to finding and discussion presentation seems okay to me in relation to how other works have approached things. I am aiming to policy relevant and that's how I want my discussion to read.

I am tidying it up properly now to return to my supvervisor on/before next Friday with a view to it being 'it'. Yes I will have to tweak here and there but I have reached the conlcusion that as it is now is the way it's going to be submitted.

Glad to hear that you are still on target to submit - good for you. Hotel living can't be easy but perhaps in relation to the final days of your thesis it's not such a bad space to be in?

Willing you lots of positive thoughts - we'll get there:-)

so sorry to hear about your dog Moonblue.

chococake, the story of my pilot is in my methodology chapter and runs to about 2000 words. The pilot was a failure in that it didn't achieve what I wanted it to but succeeded in that it prompted significant research re-design. For me 2000 words was about enough.

The mind boggles!! Leave em in! Give the examiners something more interesting to read than endless 'howevers, notwithstanding, nevertheless, moreover' etc.

Yea, I felt really guilty when I got good advice recently (printed off to digest fully later!) on threads started by other people :$ but then I guess that's the point of a public forum :$

agree with the acknowledgements, def tempting fate for me! Also won't slot them in 'til minutes/seconds before printing it in case supv cries 'hang on a minute, what's your theoretical framework again???' :$

sooooothing though!

Am tempted to add to the 'moan thread' but fear once I start I may not stop :-(

Don't think I would have nerve to shave my own dog. We got him 'groomed' at the vets last year but I think the girl who did it forgot her glasses as he came back looking, well, common! He's a Border Collie in appearance only and we all came to conclusion that he needs the longish hair to at least give the illusion of a bit of breeding!

so far I count three different spellings of calamine lotion!!!!

'Doctorateness' I admit I have never heard of before; does this mean I won't get my PhD? Is it as in the concept of doctoral education as in a PhD or is something particular to your topic Dunni? Is this it http://www.lu.se/upload/utvecklingskonferensen/Doctorateness_Trafford_090924.pdf

at least you've moved on from dog barking!

Emily's quotes sound good to me :-)