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Some examiners assume that there will be a viva. Overall, the experimental methodologies and statistical analyses applied are appropriate for the research undertaken, and the thesis is easy to read and understand. However, the candidate has used different symbols to denote the same variables in different parts of the thesis. The candidate needs ...

Et al. is an abbreviation for et alius which means ''and another'' or et alii which means ''and others.'' Because it is an abbreviation, there is no period after ''et'' but there is after ''al.'' Et al. is commonly used in citation (the practice in scholarly writing of referring to others' work) but never in referencing (the compilation at the end ...

An examiner of a scientific thesis wants a ban on words indicating a probability not entirely certain: ''Page N: 'Although the  correspondence between the XXX and YYY frameworks is not clear, it is likely that ...' Hmmm. Scientific sentences containing adverbs such as 'likely' (or 'very', 'hardly', 'quite', 'almost', 'nearly' ...) are highly ...