Hi all,

If I have a question, should I email my supervisor immediately (I work away from office), or should I wait till the supervision to ask her (which is next week)? I feel like if I was in the office, and she was there, I would have asked her, and not waited. Does that mean it is OK if I email her, or are rules different for email?

Thanks

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Started writing, which is progress! Going to work on it till late today hopefully.

Random question: If I have a question, should I email my supervisor (I work away from office), or should I wait till the supervision (which is next week)? I feel like if I was in the office, and she was there, I would have asked her, and not waited.

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Thank you so much Batlink for the advice and suggestions, that was great! I especially like the idea of placing name in the header/footer of a document, incase it is misplaced. Thanks!

With regards to the discussion within the supervision, do you just re-iterate your understanding, or are you usually asking questions that you are struggling with, or struggling to understand?

Morning everyone :)

Finalised notes, need to start reading properly and writing/summarising. That is the goal for today. Could do with some of your valuable advice on this thread folks: http://www.postgraduateforum.com/threadViewer.aspx?TID=17439

Thanks!

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Hi,

As I am new to all this I thought I'd ask for some advice :$ . My PhD project is part of a larger group project, which includes a couple of PhD students and post doctorates. Currently I am doing some background research which i suspect every PhD student in the group will probably have to do, to set the scene as such. I have pulled together loads of information from different sources and placed it all into a logical understandable structure, which probably pulls the whole document to about 80 pages. I was just wondering whether you would advise me to share this with my supervisor (as it is say one weeks of work), to show her that I am doing something (bear in mind I am a new PhD student working away from the office). My concern is:

a) There is no way she is going to read all of this, in fact I don't expect her to at all. I just want her to see I have been working.
b) Say she shares this with another PhD student?
c) What should I do instead for her to see I have been working but not to overwhelm her or give it all away?

I was thinking maybe I should write a brief summary (say two pages) of all the research I have collected and send that to her before hand. On the day of the supervision, maybe I should print out the long document of research collected and just fling it pass her saying this is what I have collected and it will come into use later when I am writing up?

i) Do you think that is wise? Or would you advise another approach?
ii) How much do you share with your supervisor?
iii) How do you share with your supervisor what you have read/understood?

Thank you so much for your help in advance :)

Goals for today: 1. Read and make notes.
2. Prepare some kind of a structure for a short essay.

Sneaks :)

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Hi all,

I have just collected a group of papers on a certain topic that I need to read. Would you recommend I read the ones that were written first and work my way down or should I read the oldest ones first? What do you do, and why?