Time, Management, Checklists, Supervisor

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Time, Management, Checklists, Supervisor

• Checklist
• Have I got Time
• Management
• Checklists
• Supervisor

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Create a System

• Time management
• Gantt charts
• Life style / Healthy balance
• http//www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/1223/Time20man
  agement.html
• Draft management
• Excel and your Supervisor
• Checklists
• Chopins Ballade in 20 mins a day
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Time Management

• Frequent reasons for lack of progress
• Objectives not clear
• Objectives not related to deadlines
• Do, Delay, Delegate, Dump
• Clarity on what the objective entails
• Break it down into segments / time / tasks
• Start and Finish tasks
• Watch how many balls you intend to juggle
• Record progress it makes you feel good

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Time Management

• Inadequate communication with supervisor
• Say NO to all those other requests
• Discipline in terms of
• Time
• Management
• Objectives
• Build in redundant time
• Unforeseen circumstances
• Procrastination http//www.youtube.com/watch?v4P7
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• Excessive distraction
• Do you find that you have become a coffee
  aficionado in 3 years?
• Getting the balance right
• life / work

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Vitae Guide Management

• When is your deadline?
• What are the main milestones in your research?
• How much have you got to write?
• How long do you think the writing will take you?
• Leave time for editing and correcting.
• How many drafts?

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Management tools

• Gantt Charts
• Draft / Submission Schedules
• Excel milestones -- progress
• Check list for parts
• Project Management software
• Be careful not to confuse planning with doing

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Vitae Tips Completion

• Write early.
• Writing is a skill so it is important to keep in
  practice.
• Make a rough writing-up plan early on
• Review other theses
• Break the projects into manageable chunks.
• Build in time to revise, redraft and implement
  your supervisors advice.
• Get friends to read and comment / pairing
• Your supervisor is not a proof reader
• Know when it is finished

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Checklists

• The Parts / Content page
• Title page
• Abstract
• Acknowledgements
• Glossary
• List of illustrations
• Introduction
• What Thesis
• Why Significance
• How Structure and Methodology
• Literature Review
• your originality
• Chapters 1 8
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Write to content page (?) Progress.

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Checklists

• The Parts
• Title page Layout / content
• Abstract 5-6 components
• Acknowledgements Does anyone deserve thanks
• Glossary Check all
• List of illustrations Cleared permissions?
• Introduction
• What Thesis
• Why Significance
• How Structure and Methodology
• Literature Review
• your originality Is my external in there?
• Chapters 1 8 Draft / footnotes
• Conclusion Sections
• Bibliography Sections / accuracy /
• currency
• The Process See Gantt
• The Administration Follow paperwork

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Reviewing / Proofing

• http//www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/1646/Reviewing-
  and-proofreading.html
• 1st edit Consistency
• Clarity on thesis
• Consistency of thesis developed throughout
• Organisation omissions necessary deletions
• Emphasis
• Content appropriately developed
• Sequential flow between chapters
• Appropriate conclusions evidence and argument
• 2nd Edit Style and Content
• 3rd Edit Accuracy

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When is Enough, enough

• Supervisor opinion?
• Is it good enough?
• Areas for improvement
• Deadlines
• Institutional
• Personal
• Financial
• Comparison
• Read other theses
• Evaluate / make assessments
• Ask supervisor for a recommended one
• Improvements / other tasks
• Be realistic
• Perfection or nervous to submit?

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Precautions

• Back
• up
• material