yeah, mendeley does allow that, but I need to leave the citations formatted for now because of the et al thing. Also my sup still has to read through it AGAIN and will probably make more changes, so don't want to unformat mendeley just yet. However, I do need it in one document now (at the moment working on individual chapters), because sup wants page numbers etc all together and sent as one document.

When you add all the chapters to form 'the thesis' i.e. 200-300 document. How do you stop word going absolultely crazy? are there any ways of shutting down parts of it so it doesn't have trouble updating mendeley etc.

I haven't experienced this for my thesis....yet...but did with hubby's and wondering if there any computer tricks (e.g. shut everything else down?) to make it work better?

All by myyyyyseeeelf.... :p

I'll just type to myself anyhoo. Done read through. Now I'm going to make changes and add the document to the BIG thesis document. Then move swiftly onto next chapter.

THere are literally not enough hours in the day for me at the moment. Was up until 11pm last night planning out teaching, which I need to finish today really. BUt I also need to read through the chapter I finished yesterday and make final changes, and start the re-draft on the next chapter. I also need to format everything because if it goes to sup unformatted she always rips the content apart, whereas if it *looks* finished she tends to have far fewer changes. :-s

GOal 1: Read through chapter and make any changes (praying it reads ok as cannot stand to spend any more time on this!)

My main stumbling block is that I use existing literature to guide my themes, so I then have to talk about how the themes match existing literature/what is new somewhere - found it really hard to work out where - in the findings, or in the discussion. Opted for the former, because it seems so silly to say all the themes, then say them all again in the dscisussion so I can say whether they're similar/different. Its been driving me insane and I suspect sup will probably go against whatever I decide anyway.

well done on the chapter finish Emmaki!

I am STILL doing my chapter. BOOOOO. But hope to finish up before 9pm and then move on to teaching prep.

oh dear, I new it was a mistake, but just eaten huge lunch and now feel like hibernating for about 6 months to sleep it off.

But I'm under SO much pressure this week! No can do. So goal 3.....

- write up how my findings support and add to existing research.

I've never been able to take a power nap :-( I find I have to lie there for about 3 hours and eventually may drift off for 10 mins, but then will be awake again, having wasted hours and then feel guilty. I find its best just to solider on :-( my dog seems fine with power napping though, although hers seem to last for hours

ok, so the 5.30am start and the 2 hours of driving have caught up with me. Suddenly feeling extremely knackered. But I will plough on!

Goal 2: sort out first bit of discussion section for chapter

Goal 1 Done :-)

Just got to work out what to do for goal 2!

Gone through some of my changes. I've made the big decision to cut an entire theme from my qual analysis. It was stupid, and annoying and needed far too much justifying and as people always say its about "telling the story" so I'm now pretending it never existed (up) Also the chapter was getting WAY too long! and now I've cut a few hundred words of stupid quotes :-)

I've done quite a lot today, but then got lazy. I've driven into london, then out of london (2 hours), walked the dog (40 mins) and then sat down and watched dowton abbey :$ I'm supposed to hand in my thesis on friday (to my sup) as a final draft, I've got 1 chapter to finish today, another to re-draft and the discussion chapter to write! Plus, I'm teaching all day thus and fri and need to prepare for that. ARGH!

So my main goals today are....

- finish current chapter
- prepare for teaching

So goal 1

- make changes to chapter that I noted in a print out yesterday

aww this reminds me of that sunscreen song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQlJ3vOp6nI&feature=related

OMG, there has been an alarm going ALL day today. Surely the person breaking into whichever property it is, should have taken time to rip out the alarm too, its extremely annoying! and its too hot to close the windows :-(

I have so much to do, so little time :-( Already annoyed at slow start this morning as hubby seems to assume that we can just laze about all morning, I wanted to get up and get going, get washing in etc get to to town, get back and get to work, so now have had to cut the town trip (which was for me) as its too late in the day :-s

Goal 1 today is to re-read results section (again!) and see what i need to be doing with it. Hate this results section now!