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anyone have time to edit a chapter?
I have been taking a break from writing chapter six by incorporating my advisor's comments/edits for chapter five, as a result, one chapter is pretty much to the final draft stage (well, as soon as I finish this task, which should be done before I go to bed tonight). He made it clear when he handed it back to me that his edits focused upon the science/content, and he caught only the most egregious grammatical errors. Therefore there would be much value in having someone else read through the text to check for spelling, grammar, and style (the thesis, having been written in chunks here and chunks there over a very long period of time has more than one writing style, some of which are far too informal for such a document, while I might be able to find and correct these, it would be much easier for someone who hasn't been looking at this text over and over again to see them).
So, is there anyone out there who happens to have the time in the next couple of days and has the skills necessary for such an edit? You don't, necessarily, need to understand the science involved, I'm just looking for help in finding the non-science problems with the writing. If you are interested in volunteering for this task (this chapter is ~ 20,000 words, including the list of figures and references) please let me know to what e-mail address I should send the file, and if you prefer it as a Word (2003) document (in which case you could make use of the 'track changes while editing' function), or as a pdf (in which case you'd have to make notes of errors found or suggested changes). (Note: the figures for this chapter comprise 22 pdf files for a total of 64 MB--looking at them whilst reading would make parts of the text make far more sense, but that is an awful lot of data to be e-mailing--if you want to see the figures too, you need to say so when you put your hand up, and I'll go in to uni to send the files so as to not exceed our upload limit from home. No, I do not expect most people would want to see them given the sum of the file sizes involved.)
If anyone thinks this sounds like an amusing thing to do, but you don't have time just now but will later, don't despair--there will be other chapters needing this same sort of help, once I've got them "done".
Many thanks to all, even those who don't have time/energy/inclination to help out with this...
So, is there anyone out there who happens to have the time in the next couple of days and has the skills necessary for such an edit? You don't, necessarily, need to understand the science involved, I'm just looking for help in finding the non-science problems with the writing. If you are interested in volunteering for this task (this chapter is ~ 20,000 words, including the list of figures and references) please let me know to what e-mail address I should send the file, and if you prefer it as a Word (2003) document (in which case you could make use of the 'track changes while editing' function), or as a pdf (in which case you'd have to make notes of errors found or suggested changes). (Note: the figures for this chapter comprise 22 pdf files for a total of 64 MB--looking at them whilst reading would make parts of the text make far more sense, but that is an awful lot of data to be e-mailing--if you want to see the figures too, you need to say so when you put your hand up, and I'll go in to uni to send the files so as to not exceed our upload limit from home. No, I do not expect most people would want to see them given the sum of the file sizes involved.)
If anyone thinks this sounds like an amusing thing to do, but you don't have time just now but will later, don't despair--there will be other chapters needing this same sort of help, once I've got them "done".
Many thanks to all, even those who don't have time/energy/inclination to help out with this...