On 4 July, Johann van der Merwe wrote:
"My thesis was nearly blocked by one external examiner because of "the wrong format" (while the two others liked my "free" format. I did not follow the "normal" format of scientific [1] literature review [2] experiment / practical work [3] writing up my notes / conclusions. I had to write what amounted to a paper on the subject of "an other format" to justify my work."
My comments are addressed to any PhD students reading this. PhD study is rigorous and sometimes hard. If you submit a Thesis for examination that does not demonstrate that you have rigorously:
- framed,
- conducted and
- communicated
independent research work on a defined topic, then you can expect an examiner to reject it. If your supervisors allow you to submit a Thesis that is inadequate in any of the above, then the failure is theirs more than yours.
Nigel Cross
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