Today I have indentified a 'me' shaped hole in the literature. And thought of a potential chapter heading. Oh happy halycon days!

All this whilst at my paid work: well, on saturdays this work consists of plenty of reading under the counter and tea (with a penguin...of the chocolate sort)

Hope everybody else is having a great weekend?

Good for you, your research is going somewhere.

do you work at the John Rylands? will be popping in this afternoon to borrow some books. no worries, i wont say hi.

J.

The counter service at the Rylands closes at 3 on Saturdays.

Congrats chrisrolinski, I have just finished a report for my supervisor due on Monday, now I have 3.5 to do the literaure review for something else she wants!

3.5 days I should of said!

A literature review in 3.5 days! I'm having kittens about handing mine in by Christmas! Good luck with the lit review!

actually, it's not that unrealistic. i did that in my first year. however, as time went by, i narrowed my research more and changed a lot of parts of it. so i don think no. of words is an issue.

3.5 days to do one bit of my literature review, basically its identfying certain literature that relates to a bit of my rsearch. The report had little to do with it, although maybe something to consider.

I should have been more specific...'draft literature review'. But yeah, I thought it wasn't unusual to have to do a substantial draft of around 10,000 words by then?

Wasn't there someone on here who had to have a completed lit review by Xmas, but they weren't supposed to change it after that i.e. couldn't rewrite it at a later date?

Yes, I'm sure I saw that on a post too.

It seems like supervisors have different expectations of their students! A completed lit review by Christmas is very steep (without changes). That aside, by the end of the year I have to have the lit review, a chapter and a prospectus of further chapters...

I don't seem to have to have anything done by the end of my first year, in fact my supe's words were "you'll probably just f**k it all up in the first year anyway so we'll just forget all that" nothing like a vote of confidence!