How so?

I think he would cite your work which is a good thing; did you publish the results before this?

Reading this!

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This. I worked for 4-5 days straight non-stop! Then after I reached the 5th and 6th day, something inside me asked me to stop or 'it' wanted to do something else :/

Have you ever reached days, weeks or months even not doing work? : (

Right, so I'm new to the academic publishing world, when or how could we tell that our material is worthy of being published, or should be published? My co-supervisor said that one could even publish a 'concept paper' (if I'm not mistaken) just to let the world know what we are doing at the moment.

Any input is appreciated.

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*Double post; sorry.

But if we developed a Theory/Technique/Method//etc and the data don't work out with the former mentioned, would that be considered a failure for the PhD?

How can we tell it's a prestigious conference/journal?

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This is my constant worry at the moment; I'm still in my first year and my work is a research project that I proposed, and at the moment, I can't find papers that have done my work, other than overlapping works, which I think the latter is ok.

How do you guys manage this? How do you know that your work hasn't been done? I'm worried that all of the sudden, during my 3rd year, someone else has actually done it and I'd be utterly gutted : (

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I think you're almost there! :)

I think you just needed a place to vent your frustrations really (something that I'm trying to do as well at the moment :/ ); once you do, it helps elevates the stress and then you (and me as well!) could continue on with work :)

I'm very happy hearing that you've someone that's very interested with your work; and yeah, I'd do the same thing! Move the guy in a second place just to be fair :)

*hugs*

I'd be utterly piss as well if my work is said to be 'theirs' as well. My supervisor mentioned during the first day of the meeting that this is my work - hinting that I better do it! And she's not there to cuddle lol.

I asked my technical writing Prof. who's name should be the first, second and etc on my first conference paper and he said that the supervisors' name should be put first; when I heard that, I went very angry inside! The hell! I wrote 100% of them! Why should their name be first!? But when I showed the paper to my supervisor, she said that her name is second, followed by my second supervisor which I'm very happy about! - So I do know your frustration dealing with work that's not going to be recognized as yours.

I'm not aware of how Australian PhD works, but could you get someone to read your work for you and see what they think? And if you could, ask them honestly; "what's my chance of passing the PhD". The more people you could get the better since now you'd have a better perspective of your position. As a consolation price, acknowledge them on your thesis that they had helped you :)

But since you recognized that you have a novel project and nice results, then that's a good indication - now you need to validate it. Have you asked her how's your progress so far? And what's your current stand?

I read the whole thing *hugs*.

But, do you think you'll have a high chance of passing once you're in your Viva? What do you think? How's the presentation (for yearly report) so far? Was it smooth most of them? How's your confidence when presenting to other panels?

PG Masters that is, and I'd want to ask PhD students because they have experienced doing one (but Masters students are welcomed as well :) )

PG Masters are expensive, I think everyone could appreciate that. What would be your advice to students that are doing a Masters but are heading towards a failed Masters or a poor performing Masters? Would you advice them to continue on or end their Masters?

I'm not so sure what employees would say about poor performing Masters really, would that effect the students negatively? Say for example the student has a good 2:1 degree but a barely pass Masters degree, would that effect their chances of securing a job related to the field or a research work?

And say for example the student has a First but their Masters is heading for a poor performing graduate degree, wouldn't it be better to just get out of the Masters and apply straight for a PhD if that's the reason why they are doing the PG in the first place (to get a place for a PhD)? - although one could argue that a Masters could strengthen the knowledge needed to do a certain field, but sometimes the Uni's way of dealing with the modules is difficult or the Uni made it unnecessarily difficult for the students to grasp the knowledge within that duration, hence why they are performing poorly.

Finally, would the ROI (Return of Investment) be poor if one gets a poor performing Masters - I mentioned this because some folks would say, "A Masters is a Masters" - is it?

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I did; I put an outline in the 1st or 2nd slide I think, telling them what I wanted to do.

It's interesting that one of them said I didn't have a section or something along the lines, I should've included 'A' - but it's glaringly obvious that A is already there.

Or maybe I'm just a bad presenter :/

They also claimed that I'm 'digressing' and they just wanted to help. ... Something's not right with that comment really... :/