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editorial changes done
Nov. 10th, 2009 08:32 pmI've now completed the list of editorial chances suggested by both examiners. I will never, ever forget the fact that photos of thin sections are taken in either crossed-polarized or plane-polarized light. Just because plane polarized light photos tend to be less colourful than crossed-polarized light photos does not make them "plain". Why will I never forget? Because I had to open some 19 different CorelDraw documents to change "plain" to "plane" for 27 different figure captions. The other edits, being in the Word document itself, were far easier to make.
I've sent an e-mail to my advisor asking him if he thinks the various comments within the text of the one examiner about things he'd have done differently, but appearing before his list titled "minor corrections" are things I should act upon or not.
Tomorrow, while waiting for his reply I'll give the whole thesis a read-over and see if I can find any other places where I could have better expressed what I was trying to say.
From there my plan will be to find a way to create compiled pdf documents, so that I can create the electronic version of the thesis which I am strongly encouraged to turn in to the university along with the paper version. Once I have pdf files which have the figures facing the pages which they should face, if printed double sided, I'll take them to a local print shop and print and bind one copy for me to keep, checking to be certain that the printed version matches my vision for the document. When I'm happy with that I'll send the pdfs to the UTAS print shop with instructions for them to print and bind the final copies and get them submitted from there (there is no point in my taking the time to post the physical copies over the ocean, when I can do it electronically). Assuming that it all gets there by the 14 December deadline the Uni gave me, my degree will be awarded in the December graduation batch. I would, of course, love to have that all done before 1 December, or, at the latest, before 10 December. Why? Because I think that I'd like it if "the question" (about life, the universe, and everything) turns out to be "at what age did Reia complete her PhD?", and I'm seriously running out of time for that one, with the birthday only a month away...
Tomorrow I've got work to do for my post-doc--it is time to upload the next experiment, since we downloaded #2 yesterday... Oh--I forgot to pick up the capsules today--they should be mounted in epoxy and ready to polish. I need to remember to do that too. Guess I must have been distracted...
I've sent an e-mail to my advisor asking him if he thinks the various comments within the text of the one examiner about things he'd have done differently, but appearing before his list titled "minor corrections" are things I should act upon or not.
Tomorrow, while waiting for his reply I'll give the whole thesis a read-over and see if I can find any other places where I could have better expressed what I was trying to say.
From there my plan will be to find a way to create compiled pdf documents, so that I can create the electronic version of the thesis which I am strongly encouraged to turn in to the university along with the paper version. Once I have pdf files which have the figures facing the pages which they should face, if printed double sided, I'll take them to a local print shop and print and bind one copy for me to keep, checking to be certain that the printed version matches my vision for the document. When I'm happy with that I'll send the pdfs to the UTAS print shop with instructions for them to print and bind the final copies and get them submitted from there (there is no point in my taking the time to post the physical copies over the ocean, when I can do it electronically). Assuming that it all gets there by the 14 December deadline the Uni gave me, my degree will be awarded in the December graduation batch. I would, of course, love to have that all done before 1 December, or, at the latest, before 10 December. Why? Because I think that I'd like it if "the question" (about life, the universe, and everything) turns out to be "at what age did Reia complete her PhD?", and I'm seriously running out of time for that one, with the birthday only a month away...
Tomorrow I've got work to do for my post-doc--it is time to upload the next experiment, since we downloaded #2 yesterday... Oh--I forgot to pick up the capsules today--they should be mounted in epoxy and ready to polish. I need to remember to do that too. Guess I must have been distracted...
