I wanted to say thank you, I got a PhD position about 2 weeks ago. Your videos were helpful during the preparation, I absolutely appreciate you. Thank you ;)
TLDR People are expressing gratitude for the helpful tips and tutorials for writing a PhD thesis, and are sharing their own experiences and excitement about the process. 🌟 A good PhD thesis should contribute new and novel ideas to the field, not just reiterate existing knowledge. 📚 Understanding the literature and identifying the gaps in knowledge is crucial for a good PhD thesis. 🌟 A good PhD thesis highlights without a shadow of doubt what is new and the unique and novel contribution to the field. 📊 The conclusion of a PhD thesis should be based on a thorough interpretation of the results. 📚 The organization of a PhD thesis is crucial for the reader's journey, and it's important to address any points of frustration to ensure clarity and understanding. 💡 Clearly defining the purpose of each paragraph and sentence in a thesis is crucial to avoid confusion and ensure clarity for the reader. 📝 Using software tools like Grammarly and Pro Writer can help to avoid distracting grammatical errors in a PhD thesis. 📚 First impressions really do matter with a thesis as well, so make sure it is substantial and reflects the size of the theses in your field.
I was approached to proofread and copyedit a Phd thesis. This video helped me get a clear lens on what to what out for while evaluating the amount of work the thesis will likely need from me. Thus helping me know how much to charge for my services for this particular request. Im just curious though, I was just told that the thesis need to be ready in two weeks, I have just now received a sample (intro and first chapter ), two weeks sounds quite rush, is it normal to wait to the very last minute to have it proofread? That’s going to cost them! 😅
Dr. Stapleton, there are so many ideas that I have to write a thesis that are new innovations. How can I find and gather the information I need to write my thesis when some of these ideas seem far-fetching from today's knowledge and understandings? I'm in my first year of my PhD program and I love your videos!!!!
100 pages from motivation to conclusions, that is what my supervisor said, because much more than that it means you were not able to present your ideas crearly in your thesis.
Hi Andy, there is a demographic that tend to apply for PhD alot due to low levels of employment or opportunity. These are people from low and middle income countries. Can you explore opportunities for people who are coming from particulary Africa? Second, one thing I have learnt from years of working in a research institute in my home country and doing my PhD in the Uk is that every research group have their culture. I worked with an academic who did not belief that a PhD student should be married. Eventually, she was looking for reasons to prove that I cannot do my PhD. She became the biggest impedement to my PhD and I am happy to say I successfully completed my studies. The funny, out of a group of 3 PhD students, I was the one who completed the work earlier but was the one who got the most challenges. Everyone saw what was going on but kept quite. Andy, just imagine having a supervisor who kept never believed you could do your PhD and tried every means to sarbotage it. That was my PhD experience, I do not want to have anything to do with her again especially because I go to know what she was saying about me to others. I completed my PhD without a support system, with a supervisor who`s ego was hurt because she was wrong about me. I think the success of a PhD training depends on the student but largely depends on the supervisor. I think it is wise to thoroughly investigate your supervisor before accepting an offer. Some academics prefer to work with certains gender, certain skin colour (eventhough they might need a dark skinned person to show that they also employ minorities, but do not relate to them properly), marital status and religion. Some do not openly say it but it is an unspoken rule in the group. I also think, it is not safe to be the first or second PhD student of an academic. You may become their experiment.
Why would anyone mandate leaving one side of a page empty thereby wasting twice more papers? I have an allergic reaction when I see a book with empty pages.
It is really popular, even here in Italy. I don't get it too. When I was a Bachelor's and Master's student, I chose to print my thesis how I wanted it to be 🤣 Unfortunately I cannot do the same with my PhD thesis!
Hi Andy, I absolutely love your channel. I am doing a PhD in Education and it sounds like yours was in science. Nevertheless, have you come across PhD theses that have a unique structure and style of narrative but still follow the traditional format? Or can you direct me to any resources that may help? My supervisor said that some of my ideas sound like a manifesto and so I am interested in finding out different structural formats to a thesis. Thanks
Out of curiosity, is the field of photovoltaics you specialized in an increasingly dead end today? I can imagine that to survive in that field, one needs a teaching job for the sake of one's sanity to balance the periods of not knowing what to research and becoming dead wood to your employer.
