posted about 4 years ago
Hi all,
I passed my viva a while ago and got a pass with minor corrections. In my institution, minor corrections are classed as
“Minor corrections may take up to 3 months to rectify. They can be defined as a significant number of typographical and/or grammatical errors or minor formatting errors. Minor corrections may also include other changes to the thesis but do not require any additional significant research to be carried out.”
My viva report was confusing to say the least, but dealt with Chapters 2,3 of the thesis (I've an earlier thread on this). The internal never got back to me after I submitted my corrections, and now 3 months later has decided they aren't sufficient.
At a recent meeting he suggested that there were a number of implied corrections. Essentially if I change parts of Chapter 2 (literature review) that it would change the entire thesis. While I get why this might be a factor in other theses, in mine it shouldn't be. The additional info that I put in my lit rev is all the stuff I'm NOT looking at. To me, it therefore doesn't change the results and analysis of my thesis.
The results and analysis sections are not discussed on the viva report AT ALL (Chapter 4, 5). He's asking for a complete thesis re-write and re-structure of every single chapter.
My institution is not helping me fight this at all. My supervisors can't get involved and the head of postgrad studies agrees with the internal despite never reading my work. They are saying he is perfectly within his rights to suggest there were "implied corrections" on my report. They seem to see no issue with a complete re-write and re-structure of my thesis under the minor corrections heading.
I don't think these corrections are minor as I know I'll have to carry out additional research. Am I wrong?