Nobody else around today? Oh well, hope you having good days whatever you're up to!

Just finished reworking my lit review chapter. Tired now, but I'm behind schedule so need to push on. I'd like to get the work on the methodology chapter planned out before the end of the day.

Hello!

I managed to get the basics of my methodology chapter planned out last night, so today I need to press on with reworking it. I probably won't get it all done today but I need to finish as much of it as I possibly can.

Good luck everyone!

Good morning!

Yestarday I managed to review my methodology and my 2nd analysis chapter. So today I have to review the 1st analysis chpater (I have to add a few things here and there) and I feel that it won't take long...

Oh! And I took off my stitches, so I am back as (almost) new!

Hi everyone!

I randomly took the day off yesterday as I dind't fancy jumping from writing one journal article straight into the next. But I'm back on it today!

Goal 1- write findings section of article
Goal 2- write discussion/conclusion
Goal 3- write methodology

That should keep me busy, good luck today all!

Hi all,

Hope you are all well, I confess I had one of those avoiding days yesterday as I'm not doing very well again, I don't seem to be getting anywhere with this chapter but hey ho! I hope you're all making better progress than I am! :-)

Morning all

I made good progress yesterday, nearly finished my Methodology chapter, although right at the end of the day I realised I needed to make some changes to the stuff I'd just rewritten. I should be able to get that all done by lunchtime, and then this afternoon I'll start work on my Methods chapter.

Hope you all get lots done today!

Morning everyone! Hope you all had a good weekend.

I spent the weekend working - am now on chapter 4 of my thesis (methods). Unfortunately I only have three days left - eek - never going to have even a nearly complete draft to hand in on Wednesday! But I'll just keep plugging away and hand in what I can.

Goals for today:
1.) Go swimming - DONE
2.) Finish work on rewriting/editing methods chapter
3.) Type up changes
4.) I f I have time, plan the changes to the next chapter

Hi Batfink,

Hope you get on ok today, it sounds like you're making great progress so keep it up! I'm doing some literature searching and reading today, I've got about a week to work on changes to one of my chapters before it will be reviewed by my sups again. Good luck with your revisions today, it's quiet here on the forum isn't it! Where is everyone?

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Hi Linda. Hope you had a successful day yesterday! And it is very quiet here at the moment, hope it's a good sign and people are getting lots done!

Mine was a bit pants really. Very slow, I barely seemed to make any progress at all, despite my huge deadline tomorrow and the fact that I'm only half way through the thesis (if that). Very disheartening. But maybe I'm just putting too much pressure on myself - what does it really matter if I don't give my supervisors as finished a thesis draft as I'd like? I've got to be realistic about the stage I'm at, there's no point convincing them falsely that I'm further ahead than I am. If the thesis takes a few weeks longer to finish than I hoped it's not the end of the world.

With that in mind, I'm going to focus now on getting the draft I've got into a readable state for the supervisors. The plan for today is to spend the morning editing a journal paper into a chapter - I'm hopeful that won't be a long job, it's mainly deleting sections and adding bullet points to show what's missing. This afternoon I'd like to do the same to a draft analysis chapter that's ground to a halt due to a poor focus - if I can refocus it, it should be okay.

Hope other people are making more progress than I am!

Good (late) morning everyone. I had a naughty day off yesterday as I worked all week and weekend on my draft methodology chapter which I submitted late on Sunday evening. Was due on Monday but I wanted to give my supervisors enough reading time as I have a feedback supervision tomorrow. So yesterday was spend food shopping, catching up with housework etc.

Today I'm transcribing and hope to have this interview finally finished by tomorrow. I need to prepare for tomorrow's supervision as well, which I'm really nervous about; I hate getting feedback and this chapter is crucial for my upgrade. Still, I tried my best!

Hi Batfink and Natassia,

Hope you both get on ok today, I think what you've said is true Natassia, if you've tried your best then what else can you do? I also hate getting feedback so good luck! And Batfink, I'm sure you will be fine! I'm just working through my chapter and I'm really fed up of it now, there's only so many times you can look at the same piece of work without getting word blind!

Oh, I know exactly what you mean about becoming word-blind, Linda, I'm starting to feel that way about some of my chapters now. And also I find it so hard to even be arsed to look at it all properly at the moment!

Natssia, good luck with your supervision tomorrow - I'm sure it will all be absolutely fine, but I totally understand the anxiety about it.

I've just finished knocking a journal article into chapter shape. Took a lot longer than I wanted, but I think it works. There are a couple of sections that still need writing in it, but I've just left notes to show what I intend to include. Next job is returning to the unfocused data analysis chapter - not looking forward to that. Maybe I'll walk to the shop for some chocolate and fresh air before I carry on!

I think getting some chocolate and fresh air is a good idea Batfink and well done for getting your journal article finished.

Hope your editing is going well too Linda, I only had ten days to write this chapter so didn't really get a chance to go word-blind, but I'm sure I will when it comes to editing it!

Transcribing has been good today, will do some more this evening but I have to go and bring my poorly horse in now and give him his antibiotic injection. I'm hoping that if his vet visit tomorrow morning goes well then my supervision in the afternoon will go well too!

Oh, poor horse, hope he's okay!

Today is deadline day (although I could stretch it to tomorrow morning if I really need to) to get a reasonable draft of ym thesis sent to my supervisors. It's nowhere near complete - of the nine planned chapters, I have complete drafts of four chapters, reasonably complete drafts of two more, and the rest is mainly notes. My supervisors are not going to be impressed, but I really have been working hard, it's just the way it goes. Oh well. Plan for today - get draft ready to hand in, and fill in as many gaps as possible in the time available.

Good morning, I've been working since 7am today, that's not right, is it?!

In my experience Batfink, they'd rather you sent them a few fully fledged chapters and then some notes detailing what you're going to do rather than really rough drafts of all the chapters, otherwise you'll end up doing what I'm doing :-( Rargh! Pretty fed up with the chapter now so I think today will be the last day I work on this one for, I'll do something else tomorrow!

Hope your horse is ok Natassia, I hate it when animals are poorly. I have a little dwarf rabbit who will be going in for the snip in a couple of weeks time and I'm dreading it to be honest. I've had to do it to another rabbit previously and I swear he never looked at me the same way afterwards...!

Anyway! Hope you all have a good day (up)