hmm, me too. going to print out my first (murky)draft. It's about 8000 words long now - hoping the corrections will make up for the 2k remaining. best of luck DanB.

hi,

am preparing my first year report and i have decided to hand in the 10,000 words from my lit review chapter. My problem is not the lack of 10,000 but the fact that am not too sure anymore :( what a lit review should contain. should it say a lit bit about all the areas that you will be looking at in your thesis, or is it ok, just to introduce your thesis topic in the context of surrounding literature in the area. E.g., if the topic is on the role of iodised salt in modern cooking. In the lit review, i would talk about cooking in general and how iodised salt comes into this. Then chapter 2 - talks about how salt came to be used in modern cooking. chapter 3 - how society reacted to it. chapter 4 - the effects of using salt, on trends in modern cooking. ch.5- the role of salt in modern cooking. ch6 - the role of iodised salt in modern cooking. am i going round in circles? Thesis is to have 8/9 chapters all together.

DanB - it's alright - only i feel very confused right now.

you give me hope hillyg. 4000 words!!!!! am gonna try to write 4000 today. that would be my greatest achievement in the last 6 months &-)

thanks guys, i will do that :). meanwhile, enjoying the writing up of my first year report due in 5 days! - this coming monday :0.

hi,

am hoping to attend a few conferences in my research area later this year and next year - social science. how can i find out which unis are holding conferences? is there an easier way other than going to their department websites?

JoJo.

2100 today!

mine pays them all. hmmm....... seems to be happy doing it.

funny enough... i was waitressing last week and i met this guy who's finishing off his PhD at Belford. Did he buy it?????

739 words

200 words today! i'll do some more and let you know how many i get done by the time i sleep.

where have i been??? laughing with a potential boyfriend online!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! am i mad or what? anyway, time to do some work.

how about we all let each other know about the progress we are making everyday...like how many words we got done. that should motivate us...let's give it a go- from today til the 1st of August.

in most unis, all students in the humanities have to do a year of Mphil then 2 years of PhD. i hardly ever saw someone not make it. hope i won't be the first.

in oxbrigde, it's over.

thanks guys. you're all so supportive! i'll try the a thousand words a day thing. :).