Official Dissertation Thread - 2011-2012

11,700 words.

I'm so fed up of this. I only have the conclusion and abstract left.

Has everyone else taken the day off? It's quite in here.

You can do it!!

I haven't done an awful lot today. I have just gone through and sorted out the bibiliography so all the references are correct and sorted through the appendix. I'm having a go at cutting out words now from the main body of the dissertation...so fed up of cutting words

Most people seem to be in the last few stages of writing now so good luck everyone!

You can do it!

Cookies* for the first one who finishes

*not real cookies

Still have 2k to do. Beleive it or not it has taken me all day to write 1k. Better get my skates on. I think I'm going to stop worrying about typing things perfectly and just write what is in my head, then edit it later.

Right, target: 1k by 8pm, this will be a laugh.

Hey I finished my disso and when I showed to my supervisor, the only things she said were that it was well researched and written, and reflected well on the issues at stakes.
Somehow, I am not overtly happy: I worked so hard on laying out my argument, but I got a comment on the fact that I read a lot, not on whether or not I was convincing!

Right, target: 1k by 8pm, this will be a laugh.

Even if I had an infinite amount of time I still wouldn't be able to perfect this dissertation. I keep reading it and changing words here n there, but in the greater scheme of things it'll probably make little or no difference

Can't wait to hand it in next week

Hey I finished my disso and when I showed to my supervisor, the only things she said were that it was well researched and written, and reflected well on the issues at stakes.
Somehow, I am not overtly happy: I worked so hard on laying out my argument, but I got a comment on the fact that I read a lot, not on whether or not I was convincing!

Did she say anything negative about the argument though? If not, don't worry too much about it Plus, it's definitely a good sign that she says it's well researched and well written - that counts for a lot!



Success?

Nah. Complete and utter fail of the highest order.

I think I'm just going to have to write *******s and deal with the fallout lol.

That's the point at which I generally stop editing essays and just hand them in.



I genuinely thought that said 'reflected well on the issue of skates'. Just in the middle of wondering how you brought skating up in your dissertation when I re-read...


Feeling very pleased with myself now - the entire first draft is down! Proper referencing (you mean we have to reference properly rather than just have URLs littering our dissertation? ), some streamlining to parts of it and tweaking the order still needs to be done, but if some horrible disaster were to arise and I needed to hand it in tomorrow, I have a complete dissertation.

Just got to 7318 words now, keep thinking im going backwards going to try and finish what I can for the critical issues of ecology work and finish the reminder which is the results section tonight.

Done everything else which is possible, got to get it finished tonight. I love my work its just killing me and had a bad holiday with it.

Anyone offer me any words of encouragement before I break down in tears?

Don't cry

You're so close to the end now and I'm sure you can get it done!

All the effort you put into it will be worth it in the end! And hopefully you'll have an awesome summer to look forward to to make up for the bad Easter