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(a small diversion - has anyone else ever confused the beginnings of the songs ''Under Pressure'' by Queen and ''Ice Ice Baby'' by Vanilla Ice? 'Cause I have...) Well, I've just finished a meeting with my supervisors. The first piece of news was that one of our potential examiners has left on summer holidays (he's from the northern hemisphere) ...

So I've been hard at work all day implementing changes my supervisor wants in a particular chapter. Things were going OK, and then I hit a familiar stumbling block - the end of a subsection. Again, I am faced with a printout of comments where a box has been drawn around the last few sentences and an arrow points from that box down to the start of ...

I have felt anguish over the sorts of comments I've been receiving from my supervisor on chapter drafts recently. In order to preserve _some_ sort of anonymity, I'll give a similar example, but change the subject. I had written something like 4.1 Trees Introductory paragraph here which might contain something like a statement that trees can ...

Whilst I appear to have signed up for a long stint of countless reworkings of my thesis this year, all in the name of giving it such a high quality style that it must have come out of the top journal in the world, it seems others can get away with not paying much attention to their work at all. No, I'm not talking about other students here at UWA. ...

...there is now not a question. It's not to be. Let me explain. This is my latest gripe about the writing style of my supervisors, which hence affects what writing style I'm allowed to have in my thesis. Apparently, I'm not allowed to use any conjugation of the verb ''to be'' before an equation. Here's an example to clarify things. In quite a lot ...

During the last few days, I've been busy addressing the comments of my supervisors regarding a few chapter drafts. I'm pleased to report that I have only one of these such drafts still to attend to. It's also pleasing that the technical side of things has basically been sorted out, and the main issues now are those of style and formatting. Having ...