today's Vivia
Sep. 6th, 2024 02:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareina My thesis examiners tell me that they liked my thesis. They liked it!!!! They say "Pass", and gave me the choice if I want them to call the list of corrections "major" or "minor". When they heard that I am about to be starting a full-time job, they said that they will described them as "major corrections", so that I will have more time till the deadline with which to accomplish the changes. (It is 3 months allowed to do "minor" changes, and 8 months to do "major", and they feel that their list falls kinda in the middle between the two.) So, sometime in the next 8 months, after I get them my corrections and the paperwork crawls its way through the system, I will be able to officially add "MPhil, Archaeology, Durham University" to my list of titles.
They will give me the full, official, list of corrections in the next week or so, but we went through the thesis chapter by chapter, and they told me what they liked, and what they think needs fixing, and I agree with their viewpoints, so I can already start doing some of the corrections before the list arrives. One of the biggies, is chapter nine--the research paper in preparation, which I had hoped to already have submitted, but for which I am still awaiting the final comments from my co-author. I had moved it into an appendix before submission, to bring the thesis word count down to a more reasonable number. After I submitted my primary supervisor said that she really felt that the paper needs to be in the main thesis, and please put it back. So I contacted the people in office where the submissions go, and they said that it would be ok to resubmit with that change, so I put it back, fixed all chapter and page numbers, and re--submitted it the next day. My examiners suggest that I put that paper in the appendix, that it adds nothing to the overall narrative of the document. This I will happily do. If I am really lucky my other supervisor will get me those comments, and we can submit it, and then the appendix will list a submitted paper, rather than an "in preparation" document...
They will give me the full, official, list of corrections in the next week or so, but we went through the thesis chapter by chapter, and they told me what they liked, and what they think needs fixing, and I agree with their viewpoints, so I can already start doing some of the corrections before the list arrives. One of the biggies, is chapter nine--the research paper in preparation, which I had hoped to already have submitted, but for which I am still awaiting the final comments from my co-author. I had moved it into an appendix before submission, to bring the thesis word count down to a more reasonable number. After I submitted my primary supervisor said that she really felt that the paper needs to be in the main thesis, and please put it back. So I contacted the people in office where the submissions go, and they said that it would be ok to resubmit with that change, so I put it back, fixed all chapter and page numbers, and re--submitted it the next day. My examiners suggest that I put that paper in the appendix, that it adds nothing to the overall narrative of the document. This I will happily do. If I am really lucky my other supervisor will get me those comments, and we can submit it, and then the appendix will list a submitted paper, rather than an "in preparation" document...
(no subject)
Date: 2024-09-06 01:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2024-09-06 03:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2024-09-06 04:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2024-09-08 06:36 pm (UTC)