{"id":38384,"date":"2017-04-03T13:59:33","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T20:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/world.edu\/?p=38384"},"modified":"2017-04-03T14:08:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T21:08:33","slug":"examiner-reads-thesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/examiner-reads-thesis\/","title":{"rendered":"How an examiner reads a thesis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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About this time every year I post something about the reading habits of thesis examiners.<\/p>\n

At the risk of repeating myself \u2013 again \u2013 it is worth knowing what they\/we examiners do when they\/we receive that big fat tome the results of your hard work.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s helpful to know that examiners don\u2019t often sit down and read your thesis in one go. If they do, it\u2019s because they are on a plane or a long train journey. Mostly, your thesis will be read in three or four or even more than one sitting. The examiners will may thus need some help in remembering where they are. Those summaries you made at the end of each chapter not only helped you as a reader to sort out how your argument was sequenced, they help examiners pick up your argument where they left off reading a few days previously are also an important aide-memoire to the examiners.<\/p>\n

The examiners are also likely to do some pre-reading before they start on the whole text. Because they can do this in between meetings\u00a0Examiners will are likely to look first at one, some or all of:<\/p>\n