seriously, I would be happy, if I were you.
What you need to concentrate now is to spend more time in lab to get useful results and write more journal articles.

Good luck and be confident.

First of all, I appreciate your progress in six months.
If your supervisor is very supportive, you can tell him that you are struggling to explain the results or whatever part of the article it is.
Whenever I wrote articles, discussions with my adviser helped me to complete the articles.

May be Engineering Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.
However, I would suggest you to read this book, Mechanics of Composite Materials by Autar Kaw

http://postgraduateforum.com/thread-28214/

they will ask about possible date of joining.
Did they ask you to give a presentation about your ph.d research? if yes, try to follow the time limit. I was asked to give the presentation for 10 min (max). I wish you good luck for the interview.

look this site,http://www.csiro.au/
then you can go to particular university's webpage and check profile of a research group or a professor and write an email. Good luck

heya SazzyCzar, I am sorry to hear about major corrections. But don't give up.
I wish you all the best.

First of all, I appreciate your efforts to pursue ph.d. I have had 6 years of break in total between my degrees. It has been very difficult path that I came across.
I am also writing my thesis right now. Writing introduction is not that easy! It took me more than 1.5 months to formulate the introduction chapter of my thesis which is only 5 pages. But I directly started to write chapter 3 of my thesis. My supervisor is supportive. If I do not know how to formulate a particular section of a chapter, I ask openly and get an useful suggestion from my supervisor. May be you could ask your supervisor about his/her expectation and how you need to structure the introduction.
You are very strong, do not give up because of this temporary problem.
I wish you good luck in writing. Cheer up.

Use mendeley, it is very helpful for keyword searching.
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Moreover, you need to do something like mentioned in this article
http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/keshav/home/Papers/data/07/paper-reading.pdf

When I submitted an article to a very good journal of my research area, they took 4 months to say that it was a major revision. Then it took another 4 months to get a response about acceptance of the article in its current form. I would say that not to worry much.

If your supervisor is sort of expert in the particular field, then he/she can not go wrong. Besides that, this publication is an added advantage.

From my experience, one has to carefully choose the journal to submit the article. I have an experience of an article being rejected after 5 revisions, then we had to submit to different journal, but another article was accepted after one major revision.

Have you asked your supervisor to suggest another methodology? If your supervisor really support you, there is nothing wrong in following his suggestion and make modification.

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