Fear generates from unknown. Once you get familiarised to the unknown, the fear tends to dissipates. Hence, try to get rid the negative thoughts of that you are going to face a hard viva-voce. Preparation reduces your viva fears. Make summary of each page of your thesis. Spend more time reading and making question of facts that you have written in your thesis. Please read section on preparing for viva in book entitled “How to Get a PhD: A Handbook for Students and Their Supervisors by Estelle Phillips and D.S. Pugh”. Glance through “How to Survive Your Viva: Defending a Thesis in an Oral Examination” by Rowena Murray. Remember show your confidence and know when to back off.
There is no such thing as a perfectly good thesis. It all depends from what perspective a thesis is viewed from. So take it easy on yourself. You have done the best you could with all the restriction that you had. Perhaps you should take a day off to lighten the thoughts etc. Good luck. Cheers.

Firstly, you need to be confident when appearing in front of your examiners. Remember and kindly make you mind that you know better than the examiners. The examiner could be expert in the field, but you are the one who spend 2 to 3 years working on the same narrowed subject. When you appear, bring along a copy of your thesis and a blank sheet of paper. Title the blank sheet of paper Amendments and left section of the paper, just scribble Page. The idea is that to inform Examiners indirectly that you have appear well prepared to accept any correction going to be suggested by the examiner. Defence yourself constructively, but when you noticed that the examiner is pressing in the same point, then just back off, let the examiner win. Remember don’t be obstinate to argue for the point that you think genuinely the examiner was wrong. In my viva, I found the Prof was ignorance on some fact and still insisting he was right, I merely smile and agree with him. After all the examiners are human, so if you notice any change of face that you could easily detect, go easy, immediately back off from the point you are arguing. Above is a penny thought based on my experience completing doctorate in UK in 2.5 years and viva voce in 2.5 hours successfully. Please read section on preparing for viva in book entitled “How to Get a PhD: A Handbook for Students and Their Supervisors by Estelle Phillips and D.S. Pugh”. Glance through “How to Survive Your Viva: Defending a Thesis in an Oral Examination” by Rowena Murray.Happy researching, Cheers.

To be quoted in a similar way as any other quotes, (Edison, 2011).
On your reference list, the reference should appear as follows:
Edison T.A. (2011), Quotation by Thomas A. Edison, Available at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/thomas_a_edison.html, Accessed: November 29, 2010.

Hence, look for the title of the web page that you have taken the quotes from. Happy researching. Cheers.

Hi Pine, don’t worry, you will be fine. One way out of this is by getting your viva fixed as early as possible. Perhaps within a month and please share with us when your viva is fixed and, I will share more on how to comfortably clear your viva. It works for me and I really hope it will work for you too. Hopefully with minor corrections. Cheers, happy researching, folks.

Kindly have a look here, it might helps to solve your headache;
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2006-October/114741.html
Cheers, happy researching folks.

Pleaseeee, for heaven sake, why can’t you create and write all these things in your own blog page. Kindly think of others for there are better means of using this good forum. Give a thought to it and if you are still ignorance, carry on, what else I could say. Happy researching folks;)

Back in UK, publication is not a mandatory requirement for a PhD. However, it helps when comes to viva-voce. Shrink your chapter and follow the reference style of the journal that you want to get it publish, and email to your supervisor. Just scribble, kindly review this paper, which you are planning to submit to …journal, to your supervisor. These times of the year, supervisors could be busy with exam board, etc. The aim of PhD is to demonstrate your capacity for carrying out critical independent research. So, go ahead and impress your supervisor. Happy researching;)

(ONS, 2010) in your chapter, whereas in your reference list ONS (2010), Office for National Statistics, [Title of the report], [Publisher], [City], [Country].

A good article for us to ponder at, http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/career_and_jobs/graduate_management/article7098376.ece perhaps we can work on something else while waiting to get whatever position that suits our PhDs. Have a luvly wknd, cheers.

Come on, there is no way for LibDem to win, most probably the coming election will result in neither parties win nor achieve the needed majority. Frankly, I hate to vote for Labour, but what to do, the other two clowns are not convincing enough. Happy voting, folks. Cheers.

Appendices are meant to supplement your facts in the chapter hence you should mention it in your chapter in the first place. For an example, let’s say you have to compute five elements using a new model that you have developed. Ideally you can present one calculation (one result) in the core chapter itself, and quote “In a similar method, the computation of remaining elements can be obtained and is provided in Appendix I”.

It is norm in this ordeal research world. Perhaps, you can adopt my style. Send to one supervisor at a time, and amend the draft then resend to others. One of the ways out of this dilemma is by sending the draft to a senior supervisor, one of those who have most experience in research based on his/her publication records, last in sequence. That's it, once you have amended your draft incorporating your final supervisor's comments, dump aside your draft chapter and start working on a new one. Finally, when you are done with all the chapters, at writing up stage, you get another headache of comments. Hence, please don't waste time at earlier stage to cater for all these various comments because each supervisor's comments are based on their experience. It could be valid from their perspective, … Oh gosh, it's too long a comment, Happy researching, Cheers.

Hi Salwa,
The best way to solve your problem is to get one of your supervisors to help you out. Words from them carry heavy weight and high chances for you to be accepted. Meanwhile, you might as well talk with those in your department, I am sure you can find someone to guide you. Remember, don’t go like a lone ranger [in fact, even he had some red indian guy to assist him, I guess], apply with good words from your present supervisor or anyone who has taught you.

Click Messages, click Options, select Email Settings, Select the Send Read Receipts and open the menu, click Change Option, change the setting to Prompt, and finally Open the menu and click Save.
Whenever u receive an email, ur blkberry will present a prompt screen allows u 2 select Yes or No.
Hv a luvly wknd & happy researching 2, cheers.

I have a supervisor (Prof.) who can’t get spellings right and don’t know a lot of things and yet he reviews journal articles. Most of the supervisors learn from the students. Mostly, what they share with us are from their past supervising experiences. Worst is a scenario when you are stuck with a supervisor without much experience but big ego. Frankly we, research students should know more in our research topic than them, I guess. Whatever, happy researching and have a nice weekend, Cheers.