It's an agony nobody can understand.
When you first started doing your experiment,all you could eat, sleep, and think of was the nice hypothesis you have come up with, and the meticulous design for your experiment. You can feel your passion burning as you carry out the experiment, as you collate the data, and analyze it.
You start to sum it up, write it into a manuscript. And after some revisions initiated by yourself, you decide to hand it in to your supervisor for his suggestion. The agony starts....
After some weeks, or perhaps months, he called you up in the lab and asked you to drop by his office to discuss over the manuscript. He offered you a seat, and that's when you start to think things aren't going as right as it should be.
He says it's your first paper. He will put you in training. He suggests some new experiment to be done. And off you went to do the experiment. After some weeks/months, you finished the experiment, summed it up and added new paragraphs into the draft. You happily handed it in to him again, silently praying that it will make him happy this time.
After even some more weeks, or perhaps months, he called you up again. He said let's discuss the structure and logic of the paper this time. He suggests a major overhaul. Structure, logic, grammar, sentence...everything. This one move here, that one move there. And you quietly went to do it, without any vehement protest.
After some more weeks, he says. Let's not just move the same contents from here to there. Start thinking how you can write an entirely new discussion or chapter with another logic thinking. And make sure you succeed before handing in your next draft.
And off you went, agonizing over how abstract his words are....
After many agonizing weeks of abstract thinking, he says this draft is in good shape, but can be improved further. He suggests reworking on the discussion. And after that, he will go through the materials and methods, as well as the results section again. You looked at him, bewildered, and said," But Sir, I thought you have already read through those sections?" And to that, he laughed,"Oh, I wasn't reading seriously through it the other time."
What can you possibly say??
AND the ultimatum is, after this, he suggests fine-tuning each and every word, to make sure they are apt.
If someone dare says I am torturing a FYP student with his/her thesis, I will tell them what I am going through NOW!
When you first started doing your experiment,all you could eat, sleep, and think of was the nice hypothesis you have come up with, and the meticulous design for your experiment. You can feel your passion burning as you carry out the experiment, as you collate the data, and analyze it.
You start to sum it up, write it into a manuscript. And after some revisions initiated by yourself, you decide to hand it in to your supervisor for his suggestion. The agony starts....
After some weeks, or perhaps months, he called you up in the lab and asked you to drop by his office to discuss over the manuscript. He offered you a seat, and that's when you start to think things aren't going as right as it should be.
He says it's your first paper. He will put you in training. He suggests some new experiment to be done. And off you went to do the experiment. After some weeks/months, you finished the experiment, summed it up and added new paragraphs into the draft. You happily handed it in to him again, silently praying that it will make him happy this time.
After even some more weeks, or perhaps months, he called you up again. He said let's discuss the structure and logic of the paper this time. He suggests a major overhaul. Structure, logic, grammar, sentence...everything. This one move here, that one move there. And you quietly went to do it, without any vehement protest.
After some more weeks, he says. Let's not just move the same contents from here to there. Start thinking how you can write an entirely new discussion or chapter with another logic thinking. And make sure you succeed before handing in your next draft.
And off you went, agonizing over how abstract his words are....
After many agonizing weeks of abstract thinking, he says this draft is in good shape, but can be improved further. He suggests reworking on the discussion. And after that, he will go through the materials and methods, as well as the results section again. You looked at him, bewildered, and said," But Sir, I thought you have already read through those sections?" And to that, he laughed,"Oh, I wasn't reading seriously through it the other time."
What can you possibly say??
AND the ultimatum is, after this, he suggests fine-tuning each and every word, to make sure they are apt.
If someone dare says I am torturing a FYP student with his/her thesis, I will tell them what I am going through NOW!
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