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Coming close to the end of Masters and need to make a decision about continuing on to do PhD or not. Please help. My supervisor is very overpowering corrects the same piece over and over so it is never good enough after 6 or more drafts and keeps coming up with more changes all the time. It is very disheartening and demotivating. Is this normal practice? Am not sure if I can stick this for another 2 years if I decide to continue....

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What kind of changes your supervisor is suggesting? Rephrasing the same theme or addition of new themes and topics. If it is the later case, I would tell the supervisor politely that it is the best I could do. But for that you must be sure that your piece of writing is good enough for qualifying into your thesis section.

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Hi clarephd,

my second supervisor was like that during my masters. In my first year I received 100 comments on an accepted manuscript. I am 3 and a half year in the PhD, and now I get less comments (only 36 comments in the last accepted manuscript). My supervisor is ALWAYS stricter than the reviewers.

I have also reduced the number of drafts: I used to go through 15 drafts per paper... now I think we go only through 4 or 5. So, I guess I am improving!

But yes, you need to work all the time and NEVER complain.

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