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Hi all,

brief question: How much did you write in your first year? I dont mean notes you write from books/papers, but themed constructive writing? Were these in pieces? all together? How many words of good and useable quality by year end? Also, how often did u guys submit written work to your sup? How did you structure these pieces and how long did they have to be?

best

P'Bug

Dunno if its the norm, but you should have at least a first draft of the literature review and a detailed outline of the subsquent chapters (subject to change). The lit review section should be written to a publishable quality i.e. if you were finishing right there and then, you would have no troubles with the level of quality.

Hi there,
I wrote up my stuff as I went along (my PhD is in the biological sciences) and I sent my supervisor eg the methods section or the results section as soon as they were done. this was all done with the intention of turning this stuff into a manuscript. So by the end of my first year I had most of my (exciting) results turned into a manuscript and ready for submission. The stuff that didn't get written up is now a pain in the proverbial, because I have to write it up for my thesis... I reckon you should try to write as much as possible and get as much feed back as poss- how will you learn or improve if you don't get this? try and write stuff that is of benefit for you sup and you, ie chapters/ or manuscripts..
Hope this helps!
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I wrote a literature review (that has changed a lot in the next years), and some reports of my experiments that I now use in my thesis.