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You cannot cite papers you have not even read. Neither should a professional researcher (even at PhD level) be simply taking their supervisor's word for anything like that. At this level you are supposed to be critically evaluating everything you read and hear and making your own mind up about things. You run the risk of being questioned on that reference during your viva.
No supervisor should be behaving the way yours is but it no longer surprises me to hear about this sort of thing.
You should try using an Inter Library Loan if possible.
This is excellent news. Congratulations.
It can be difficult to have someone tell you that your work is below the level it needs to be at.
Not taking that personally and simply focussing on what is required to improve yourself is part and parcel of not just getting a PhD but maturing as a successful adult.
You are missing a qualifer before {2 cm} and {8cm}.
I have used 'p' but 'm' also works. You'll need to play around with this because I don't really understand the formatting and frankly the latex documentation is dreadful.
The following will get your code to compile and display the table as a first step though.
\begin{table}[h]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{||p{2 cm}||p{8 cm}||}
\hline
\multicolumn{2}{|c|}{Internal Combustion Engine Operating Speeds} \\
\hline
Number of Cylinders & Engine Speed\\
\hline
1 & 2500 rev/min \\
\hline
$>$ 1 & 1500 rev/min \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Internal Combustion Engine Operating Speeds. }
\label{tab:Engine}
\end{table}
When 75% of students are not attending lectures I don't think it is good enough to simply blame them for not being motivated.
It happens in so many subjetcs at so many universities that it is clearly indicative of a problem of current teaching methods.
I think the problem is more general than just butterfly's case and stems from the fact that so much teaching is designed to make the learning process completely passive.
Obviously in this specific instance I don't know what the exact problem is but instantly blaming the students is a huge red flag.
butterfly, how much of your teaching is passive and how much is driven by the students? I always found that attending lectures was a total waste of time. The lecturer would have been bettr putting the notes online and running problem solving workshops instead. Interestingly, the majority of students come to life when you give them things like posters to create or to design experiments. Having them sit in lectures for an hour at a time kills the spirit of even the most motivated students.
In too many cases, teaching at universities has not progressed very much from thirty years ago when I did my first degree. This is seriously bad news.
Nothing wrong with having your own deadlines for your own benefit but you definitely do not want to be telling your supervisors about them. If they specifically ask for them I would be very cagey about it, couch my words in very vague terms and probably double the times I had estimated myself and I would make it clear that those were soft targets rather than deadlines, very likely to change. In fairness though it really is none of their business because it's your PhD.
Good luck for Monday. Let us know how you get on.
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