| Dear Mr. Student, I read the first few pages of your thesis, which is attached with my comments. In general, I found a number of basic stylistic and grammatical problems, and the type of comments I made where mostly aimed to correct those. It is your job to prevent these types of basic stylistic and grammar comments. You are supposed to send me a document that in your hearth you believe is the best possible. If in the document there are a lot of grammatical errors that even Words can catch, then obviously this is not your best attempt to a thesis -this is just the first thing that you wrote down. I strongly suggest the following:
I know this is a lot of work. However, even I go through all of this. I've read my manuals of style, I've written papers for 10+ years, and still, at every new paper, I go through 30 to 40 iterations from the first draft to a published journal paper. In your case, you have to put even more effort because it is the first time you are doing it - but precisely because you are a beginner, you cannot think to put less effort than I do on my own papers even after all of these years. The good news is that all of this work will pay off later on as you progress toward you PhD, and write many more papers, and a longer thesis. Best of luck, and good work! Vincenzo Liberatore Schroeder Assistant Professor Division of Computer Science Case Western Reserve University |