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8 years ago in Research Writing By Keshav Verma
How to work on additions and comments in a PhD thesis?
Hi! I am in the third year of my PhD and I recently received the reviewed third draft of my thesis from my supervisor. The problem is that I am struggling with the corrections and additions that my instructor has recommended to me for my research thesis. The number of corrections and comments that he has suggested to me are so many that even looking at them is making me feel scared! At certain places he has asked me to restructure entire chapters or revise the theoretical framework used, and I absolutely can’t figure out how to make such major changes at this late a stage in my research. I mean is that even possible now !?
At many places he has just put the comment “generalisation” even though I have provided relevant data to supplement my claims. I don’t think that he even bothered to go through or read the content properly, and has just suggested extensive revisions just in order to keep me occupied. Apart from that he has made many substantial deletions from the thesis which have also reduced the word count of the entire thesis. I can’t understand why did he not suggest these large-scale revisions when I sent him the first draft of my work. I don’t even know how to begin proceeding with all these changes now! Has someone had a similar experience with their supervisor, how did you manage to deal with it?
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By Aditi Sharma Answered 7 years ago
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By Priyanshu Rathore Answered 7 years ago
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answered on 16 Mar 18
Can understood the really difficult situation in which you must have found yourself. It must be frightening to think of making such huge changes at this stage. I think that you should approach this by breaking the entire the entire process into smaller parts which will make it easier. Start with the really small changes first and then move onto larger ones so that you have sufficient time to build up to them, because starting by revising entire chapters and re-doing the theoretical framework will be a bit too daunting. Also I would recommend that you involve somebody else in the process (perhaps a fellow doctoral student from your field) to offer another perspective. Like you said it will be a difficult thing to do so having another set of eyes looking at the thesis as you make the changes will help your case.
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By Sonali Jain Answered 7 years ago
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