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My supervisor wanted the latest (and, ideally, close-to-finished) draft of the thesis in hard copy by the middle of the day today, so he can poke at it over the weekend. So last night I wrote and messed with stats and things until I stopped making sense; went to bed around 3:30, got up this morning a little before 9 and kept on banging at the paper until about 1, when I printed it out and walked it over to his office rather than make it wait for the next pickup of interdepartmental mail.
I'm at about 9700 words, and I have notes for some more stuff to talk about and some things to fix that might add up to about another two thousand. I'm not concerned about the length, really, you understand, as much as the thoroughness. Where length does matter, though, is in binding. Exam regs say theses and dissertations have to be bound; my department exempts MSt dissertations and MPhil theses (but not DPhil theses) from that requirement, which is decent of them, but the thing still has to be held together in some way. The standard is that all pages have to be securely fastened; a clamp-style report cover is okay, but a slide-style one would probably not be. You could staple the damn thing if you wanted, though it probably needs to be a little classier than that. A ring binder? No dice.
So all the clamp-style report covers I've been able to find appear to hold no more than about 50 pages (and I assume it would be a little less if they were pages of heavy laid paper). I'm at 40 pages of text-and-footnotes at the moment, to which I'll have to add a title page and bibliography; plus the paper itself will get longer -- so I might be over 50 even before I address the question of whether to include these appendices, which would be, no joke, another hundred pages, give or take.
In short: I may have to get the thing bound after all. I can do softcover instead of hardcover, so that's all right, but that subtracts at least 24 hours from my writing time, you know? GAH. Bastards. Rar.
And right now, I'm almost too tired to go take a shower.
I'm at about 9700 words, and I have notes for some more stuff to talk about and some things to fix that might add up to about another two thousand. I'm not concerned about the length, really, you understand, as much as the thoroughness. Where length does matter, though, is in binding. Exam regs say theses and dissertations have to be bound; my department exempts MSt dissertations and MPhil theses (but not DPhil theses) from that requirement, which is decent of them, but the thing still has to be held together in some way. The standard is that all pages have to be securely fastened; a clamp-style report cover is okay, but a slide-style one would probably not be. You could staple the damn thing if you wanted, though it probably needs to be a little classier than that. A ring binder? No dice.
So all the clamp-style report covers I've been able to find appear to hold no more than about 50 pages (and I assume it would be a little less if they were pages of heavy laid paper). I'm at 40 pages of text-and-footnotes at the moment, to which I'll have to add a title page and bibliography; plus the paper itself will get longer -- so I might be over 50 even before I address the question of whether to include these appendices, which would be, no joke, another hundred pages, give or take.
In short: I may have to get the thing bound after all. I can do softcover instead of hardcover, so that's all right, but that subtracts at least 24 hours from my writing time, you know? GAH. Bastards. Rar.
And right now, I'm almost too tired to go take a shower.
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Anyway, best of luck!