So I’ve been trying to get back into the swing of doing the corrections for my Ph.D. thesis this weekend after being ill for a while. I’m pleased with what I’ve managed to get done so far but I’m probably only about half-way through with the corrections.
There were nearly 200 corrections after my viva back in January - some of them were rather fundamental and a lot of them have required a lot of re-reading of the literature. I’ve also had to add new references in to quite a few places to reinforce what I’ve been saying. As a result, the whole thing is now some 60 pages longer than when I submitted it! This is mainly as a result of having to expand in some detail pretty much all of the background chapter as I had misjudged the amount of detail needed when I was discussing existing research. Hopefully an extra dozen figures and 20 pages will help!
Hopefully it will be finished by the end of June. I really don’t want it to drag on any longer than that and spoil another summer. I also need to make sure that I am finished in time for the graduation ceremony in November!
