Thanks for your help everyone.

Poppy,

That is what I meant thanks. I would really like to have a look at someone elses report, but unfortunately my department have a policy of not letting anyone have a look in case they make the same mistakes, which is really annoying!

Hi everyone,

I am in the middle of writing my first year report at the moment, and I have to include a section on my plans for future work over the next two years. I have written all the rest of the report in third person past tense, but I can't really do that for this section. Can anyone suggest a suitable style for writing this part as I don't want it to read completely differently to the rest of the report.

Thanks in advance :)

p.s. I'm in the sciences if that makes any difference

I started my science PhD in Sept 08, however I just feel like I'm not getting anywhere with it. I've done several experiments and am reading quite a few papers, but I don't really have any direction. I know PhDs are supposed to be very much self directed etc and I don't have a problem with this, but I feel I should have at least some input from my supervisor (we have only had 2 meetings so far). I'm just worried because no-one in my group seems very motivated, and everything just progresses so slowly. Just wondering if this is normal for the first year of a PhD or whether I should be worried as most people seem to have far too much to do not too little?