With thesis season nearing its end, I am pleased to have a full draft of my thesis pulled together into the master thesis document. It has been a long road to get to this point, but I feel quite confident now that I have everything together in one place.

This draft includes all of the main body of the thesis (literature review, methods, findings, and discussion chapters) as well as the introduction and conclusion chapters. Of course, as a full draft, the document also includes everything from the title page to the last of the appendices. In fact, the only thing that is not in the document yet is the text for the acknowledgements page. And that is only missing because I don’t want anyone to see that page until after the document is submitted.

Now that I have the full draft ready, I have started to flag up pages that need additional text, edits, or formatting. I also have a couple of other people looking at parts of the thesis to flag up any additional errors or omissions that need my attention.

I have two weeks until my submission deadline, which has me a bit stressed. But thanks to my amazing master thesis document, at least I know that these last two weeks will be spent on the content of my thesis, and not wasting time fiddling about with the formatting.

My next post, if all goes to plan, will be about my thesis submission. (How exciting!) But for now, it’s back to editing.

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