My note from him 1. Gather enough data 2. Look at the data before you write the chapter. Not the other away around. 3. Simplify the data. Presenting the minimum, you should present the best results. It gives more quality than only quantity. 4. Be decisive. Focus on the strongest result. 5. Create rough outlines. You will understand the number of chapters and plan how to work on it 6. Making the deadline to finish the chapter.
As long as you're not simplifying the data in a way that distorts the results to give you what you want... Best data should be best *quality* data I'd also say it's not enough to make a deadline- you have to meet them. Often this means altering what you do to make sure you finish in time.
yes help now only 2.5 months left and im supposed to start a postdoc appointment oct 1, but have to graduate /defend first. Im still doing more experiments too, just trying to make one assay work
If you absolutely have to submit within 2.5 months, you might not be able to include those last experiments. Maybe decide how long you will allow yourself to get it working, then if it's not done by then you'll have to write up what you have.
Right now I'm panicking, I got about 6 to 7 months left. I'm living in Denmark for research for 4 more months and my PhD degree enrolled in Pakistan. Need advices please!🙏
@@James_Hayton Yeah. Complete data but some of it needs to be plotted in graphs and correlations. I mean the data is gathered enough but for writeup I'm not getting very consistent and disciplined....
This video was tremendously helpful. Writing the introduction first, and staying with the problems that appear rather than leaving them for later makes plenty of sense. Thank you very much for the video.
Came across this video EXACTLY few months away. The thing is, all my chapters have been drafted, trying to say less with what I gathered from my data. Yet my spv seems to enjoy the complexity of my thesis, hence we keep revising the draft over and over. I am exhausted and overdue.. 😰
It depends on the individual! I'd need to know more than just the amount of time left. My first question would be whether you have all the data you need and have you done your analysis?
Thanks for the helpful tips! Can you please do a video on how to cope with losing data or part of your thesis? I was exhausted this week instead of copying my introduction, I cut it, and then proceeded to save the new version of the thesis and close Word without pasting it! I have tried everything but the chapter is lost forever. All I have is a previous version from 6 months ago. Any advice on how to not panic and stay on track when I have to redo the same work? I am in the final weeks of my writing and my discipline is in the humanities.
It took me 5 months to complete my dissertation in medical sciences, and in the first three months I still was completing my leftover experiments required by my advisory committees. I remember many days and months to final line I was staying late in my little office room trying to finish my thesis draft at the same time analyzing my data and graphical presentations. The publication style I used with 4 papers written in manuscript forms plus intro, literature review and closing with discussion and conclusion really helped.
Keep going and get the last 3rd done! You'll got to be very decisive and focus on the most important points. If it's not possible to finish, ask for an extension early
I just completed my second doctorate and the write up was 3 months (and I work and have a family as well). The thing you have to make peace with is that there will always be more you could add. Can the thesis statement be supported sufficiently with the material collected thus far? Stop there! I set 2, 5 months as my deadline for 6 chapters. And then 1 week for editing (there will always be a" jumbled up mess" but it will have some logic to it) and TurnItIn identified corrections and 1 week to have a mentor read through it in it's completed form (while I worked on front matter).
Thank you! Different fields...Different Person. A Ph.D. in Finance 20 years ago and a Th.D. in Christian Apologetics now. Helps that I've been on both sides of the fence (student and supervisor).
I have one year left and I have no chapters nothing no data! They want to kick me out but they can’t cuz officially I am making progress hahaha. I need to write my thesis tho.
@@James_Hayton in my first year my professor changed my topic so I could be a minion for his publications and was toxic so I jumped ship to another supervisor. The new supervisors theoretical interest was different from the former one and he made me read shit loads of papers before data collection. I had my 2nd year review in January which I failed they referred it saying I won't. be able to finish on time (despite being the ones suggesting difficult frameworks and methodology and halting my data collection). They want to frustrate me out of the program I believe.
