thesis progress
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transposable_elementI decided to post about this because I feel like I need some motivation to get it done.
So far:
I have a clean final draft of three sections: introduction, literature review, and methods. This afternoon I made what I think is a very pretty figure on inverse PCR for the methods section, and I need to go look up some primer sequences so I can add them, too, but that ought to be just cut and paste.
I'm about to start my second round of edits on the results section, but I still have a chunk (about 20% of the total) still to write.
The discussion section is outlined.
The bibliography is done (thanks, Refworks!), except that I will need to go through it and take out any references that I haven't actually cited.
I'm planning to write the abstract when I'm done with everything else. Oh, and I need to come up with a title. And then I need to go through and look for semicolons, because apparently one of the people in the graduate studies office who will have to sign off on the thesis hates them. I hope s/he understands that semicolons are used in genotype notation for Drosophila.
My goal is to finish the results section and complete a first draft of the discussion by March 15. That's really the hump; after that it's just editing, and my advisor is pretty quick with that. The whole thing is supposed to be submitted by April 1, an ominous date.
So far:
I have a clean final draft of three sections: introduction, literature review, and methods. This afternoon I made what I think is a very pretty figure on inverse PCR for the methods section, and I need to go look up some primer sequences so I can add them, too, but that ought to be just cut and paste.
I'm about to start my second round of edits on the results section, but I still have a chunk (about 20% of the total) still to write.
The discussion section is outlined.
The bibliography is done (thanks, Refworks!), except that I will need to go through it and take out any references that I haven't actually cited.
I'm planning to write the abstract when I'm done with everything else. Oh, and I need to come up with a title. And then I need to go through and look for semicolons, because apparently one of the people in the graduate studies office who will have to sign off on the thesis hates them. I hope s/he understands that semicolons are used in genotype notation for Drosophila.
My goal is to finish the results section and complete a first draft of the discussion by March 15. That's really the hump; after that it's just editing, and my advisor is pretty quick with that. The whole thing is supposed to be submitted by April 1, an ominous date.
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Date: 2015-03-07 08:29 pm (UTC)