Thesis reviewers or examiners makes up weird questions and comments to freak out postgraduates at the end of long struggle in PhD life. Thesis comments are most disturbing as students find those as only barrier to graduate.
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A typical PhD thesis received a comment from reviewer and the student emailed us in publication.easy@gmail.com
The reviewer said "You do not have enough theory in it, get some more". Its a major revision. We have faced this question so many times from so many postgrads that, it became a FAQ for our expert panel. A thesis is not like a petrol tank – you can’t just ‘top it up’ with some missing ingredient. What you should do to avoid such problems:
1. Check your thesis with your supervisor. In most cases supervisors takes a hands-off approach and does not read it all as they have busy schedule. But if your supervisor is a caring one: you will get best advice with some solution from him. Feel lucky!
2. Unlucky fellows (who don't have a caring supervisor who likes to spoon-feed students) should send their thesis chapter by chapter to experts of relevant field. Our expert panel can do it.(This is real advertisement :).
3. Do not treat your data as theory. Do not import some other literature data and treat it as theory.
4. Tailor your theory for your data set so that it covers your case results.
5. Get rid of loose statements. Do not try to define things loosely. Use appropriate words to generalize the special case you are focusing and where the theory works/matches with your result.
Finally, present it well. Good presentation in thesis can ease your way to success. Best of luck.
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