1. Perform studies for three years. Work on projects in five different areas. Get lectured about not responding to emails fast enough. Learn many clever tricks to locate code snippets to patch into your own work.
2. Create a thesis outline. Watch your adviser rewrite it. Rewrite it again as you begin working on your thesis (it's just a guideline, really).
3. Read several other dissertations trying to get a sense of how one puts together such a document. Puzzle over what in the world makes your adviser say the one packed with grammar mistakes is well-written. Come to the realization that dissertations are unofficially ranked first on thoroughness and second on originality; writing style is far less a consideration.
Tuesday 6 November 2012
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