Depends on your supervisor's status, contacts etc apart from uni regulations. In the UK generally I have seen transfer students starting from scratch, (though there are some exceptions), the best person to answer this is your supervisor. He would know the regulations in the country to which you are going, the equations within the school and the department, and his own hold on the rules and regulations (depending on how flexible they are or not).

So all of these factors influence whether you shall be able to do this from first year or second year, and the only person who can give you a clear picture is your sup.

What's this level 1 and level 2 thing?

I don't think any comparison this way is possible from one currency to another. It completely depends on the currency. You absolutely can't convert to pounds and then be concerned, inter-currency discrepancies: well, that is another debate altogether, and I am sure your focus is different.

The real question is is the pay poor by the local currency standards? Are they overworked in comparison to what the pay is? And naturally the comparison is with other south african colleges. If an academic who is well paid for his consultation and research activities by all his national standards, and is part of the socio economic elite in his country (let us say a developing country) suddenly decided to compare his salary in pounds, and it came to 500 pounds a month, that would be great pay by his country's standards and rubbish here. So it is crucial you get this clear.

you mean when you quote as in "the interpretative contract is realised" (Iser, 1979: 67) ?

Hmm in that case, of you are following the Harvard method, you need page refs for books...on the other hand if you are prepared to remove quotes do that...

Sort out all the quotes from books which you cant do without...and copy a chunk and search on google...if it is on google books, it wil come up (make sure you get the year and edition changed on the ref if need be)....for the ones that dont come on google, you need to get the book...but usually google books solves 75% of the problem..


a couple of days ago in this forum someone suggested putting in random numbers...sounds fine to me, unless there is a really interesting bit that sparks off something in an examiner's head and off they rush ti fetch the book from the shelf and lo and behold!

good luck!

Sleepy I love you!!!!!!!!!! LOL a thousand million trillion times!

@K: English, knowledge of the difference between MSc and PhD (as apparent from ur other post), are some of the things you should look into.

@S: You really wrote this lovely post for this?!? :-)

What's passing with majors and minors for a PhD? Or were you not talking of a PhD? I often wondered if there were any kind sof grades or similar grading phenomenon for PhDs...

Would agree with smoobles, true my phd is with my MSc sup, but all my other offers were from people I didn't know and in four cases from a continent I;d never been to :-) (and funded, and all good places!)

I;m sure everyone here below is right...I guess I was thinking of giving the student the benefit of the doubt because, often students who are very enthusiastic and very keen do seek that extra bit of support, even if just a nod that they are doing OK! But Pamw will know the student, and will know what exactly they are like, which is crucial to deciding what they may have meant.

I think the student is probably a little hurt and doesn't mean a single bad thing at all!. When i sent my Msc sup a list of books for essays last year (well, now she is my PhD sup!), she replied saying:

Excellent! But don't forget Scholar X. Also you may wish to cut down a bit.

That was all. And I was happy.

As a person who was writing to tutors and semianr leaders till even 8 months ago, I think this student means absolutely nothing cheeky and probably felt they did something wrong and owed you an explanation.

but mind you, as you notice, I am completely writing from the student's shoes :-)

Ginga even my supervisor has tremendous confidence in me, and supports me in every possible and imaginable way. But she does also read every sentence I write and marks out little things. It's only useful, and in no way restrictive. The key word in the PhD is "learning" to be an independent researcher, and learning is always a collaborative process between teachers and students, even if intellectual partners, one must be able to derive from the other. And the other must be available to be harsh, be critical, be supportive, be kind, most of all.. be THERE. to read, critique, listen, object, oppose and support.

Heifer, things will get better. Have faith in yourself :-)

Nobody knows? :-)