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I am writing this out of frustration and if you read ahead, do excuse my language.
The most humiliating and pathetic thing that can ever happen in the course of your master’s research, is a failed dissertation. Those lousy professors are absent most of the times and when the time comes to actually help your students: they choose to fail you! They criticise your work, tell you how worthless your research is, that you are a complete disappointment to the research community and you have done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in the two years of your masters!
Who the hell are they to decide that for me when I am sure they didn’t even read my complete document?
And if they are so bloody concerned with my contribution to the invisible community, then where the hell were they when I needed help with my research?
First you leave your students alone, without any guidance-what-so-ever. Then you show up in the marking stage and give pathetic grades. Then you say shit like ‘no substance in the work’, ‘poor demonstration’, ‘that’s not academic writing’, ‘you need to do substantive editing’.
W-T-F! Can editing really save my hard work of all those months?
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Boy are you frustrated! I am not sure I can understand your feelings, as my supervisor has always been there to support me. But I do understand how rejection feels.
Coming to editing, I would say that editing can do wonders to your work. And to be honest, it is a biggest part of a masters or PhD program, which is highly unavoidable. You should not be repelled by it, or feel sorry that you have been suggested with editing. To think about it, it is a chance to further your work, enhance it and even get higher marks than you must have expected.
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Ditto for the above. Editing can do wonders to your work and this is how you must go about it:
http://www.accuedit.com/blog/ -
If you feel better, then I must tell you that I have been editing my dissertation chapters for as long as I remember.
http://www.statisticsconsultation.com/blog/editing-is-inevitable-for-a-thesis-why/
It is inevitable. Don not lose your mind over it and just go along with editing.
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