i hope eventually truth and justice will prevail!

wow that is unbelievable, that there are people like Katy out there in the academic world. really helps to put things into perspective doesnt it! yikes!! if she really did delete that poor girls lit review, that is just EVIL.

and cant believe the allegations she threw back at you! wow this really is high drama!!

I hope it all works out, and I believe that people like this always get it back, karma and all that! what goes around comes around, eventually.

and you're very welcome , my pleasure

that sounds like great progress Olivia! well done sounds like you're chopping down the forest

his specific advice:

Patrick Dunleavy speaks about 'cutting' down the problem of cutting it down.
page 208: Authoring a phd

{quote} try thinking about it on a smaller scale, cutting out 30 out of 330 words on each page of your A4 transcript which may be easier to do. If you can try to make more cuts in the lead in chapters and to safeguard the thesis core. If you are over your limit, you can now put data and other bulky materials on a CD bound into the thesis, instead of having to get it printed up as text. most university regulations about length still assume paper only thesis and so as yet say nothing about Cds. {end quote}

Patrick Dunleavy advice

page 208: Authoring a phd

{quote}
"it is very common for people who thought they were comfortably inside the word limit to find out that they have run over not just the four-fifths rule, but even the formal thesis limit by 10, 20% .

often the problem occurs because they are repeating similar material at different places in different chapters or they are overdoing the level of detail that the readers need to know. when you are pressing to reach closure on the thesis, this can be a depressing realisation to make, since it may mean that you must spend extra weeks or even months just cutting away text which took you so long to write in the first place{ unquote}

but, i have read that you have to apply for *special* permission if you want your thesis to extend more than 100,000 words. and justify why.

Patrick Dunleavy speaks of a chapter should idealy be between 6,000 words (being the minimum) and 12, 000 words being the maximum. he talks about 10,000 words for a chapter as being the *ideal*

hmmm if i had a chapter that i had to chop, i guess me personally, i would print it all out. and then get a highlighter, and highlight the very very important key things, and then see which bits are not really needed for the main argument of the chapter.

oh dear! sounds very painful indeed!!! Patrick Dunleavy actaully states its HARDER to chop a chapter down than it is to write one! so you have my upmost sympathy!! I went through irritation this weekend also, where i had to write a one sentence summary of each and every single paragraph of my first thesis draft!!! summarising a paragraph into one sentence, was driving me mad! my first summary was 70 pages! which i finally cut down to 30 pages. with lots of chopping out, and clever single spacing lol. but then thinking, nah dont really need to include that, *DELETE*

hmm advice. its a toughie. as i suspect most of the stuff you have written you would like to keep and is valuable to your argument.

well for university of london regulations, they state explicitly that it MUST NOT EXCEED 100,000 words. and Patrick Dunleavy suggests to aim for a thesis that is no more than 80,000 words, in order to be *Safe*

oh well like JB says no crying over unwritten work in the past. each day of its own accord is what counts tommorow is a new day

i do feel guilty though. not doing anywork on my thesis today.

well i confess, i took the rest of the day off

after i finished my summary. did some exercise, took a shower, i rechecked my summary again around 6pm and finalised it.

had dinner, and watched a dvd, and basically took the evening off.



but tommorow i am going to make a plan for the rest of the week, and i vow to work hard for the rest of the week. i have 5 weeks left, to get all my chapters completed to final completed draft version.

thanks ex student, thats so nice of you! i appreciate that :)

Jojo, that is FANTASTIC news!! well done for you for sticking to it!

good luck, i have every confidence in you , you will get the changes done and be given the green light to go for the phd! so proud of you.

shame you have to postpone your trip, i guess sometimes we have to make sacrifices.. hope you get this all sorted out though! looks like you got a plan and are rearing to go

great aims tractorgirl and oh yum at the chocolate gateau cake!! i would have been the same and eaten it if i had one in the house lol!

me going to a family lunch thing tommorow aswell, i think its a bbq. only going for a few hours though, basically to eat,lol and then will make my excuses and leave and come back home to continue working on my thesis.

okay finished my aim: finished the summary -reduced it down to 34 pages. now.

i think 34 pages is fair. i mean the first draft is 180 pages. and she said to write a sentence describing each paragraph. and each result figure and table. i cant reduce it anymore.

they will just have to read it. given it to a friend to check it though. and will do any corrections and then email on monday. dont want to waste anymore time on it. when i really ought to be working on my thesis.

taking a break now. will come back later today to state my aims for the rest of the day.

Hi Tractorgirl, thanks for your message you're right, we just gotta do the prep to prepare for the real thing.

i will contact the university and they will send me a list of binder places. i remember now its in with the exam forms.you just have to write to them and they send you a list of binders.

and when i go in with my meeting with the sups. i will look at one of the post docs thesis, even though its from a different uni. and see how she had her thesis done with regards to the layout on the spine and front cover.


thanks for your offer though.

how are you doing? you working on your thesis over the weekend ?