As an ecologist, one part of the answer is think of all the paper you
are saving, so maybe there is something inherently wrong in printing
10 copies of a 200 page thesis?
Any good graduate student will take the time to read your comments
and decide which ones they agree with and which ones
In addition to using track changes, you can insert comments about the
writing at specific places. This gets rid of the 'accept all changes'
problem and would require the student to read all of the comments and
make decisions about which ones they agree with and ones that they
don't.
Cheers,
Why not make the document read only thus preventing the accept all changes
issue completely. The student will have to read all the comments and then
insert changes as desired into the original ms. With a large comment that
might need insertion or removal of text, they will have to make the
I have a question for faculty-types who review student theses and
dissertations, and I'd also like to hear from students writing such
things. I'm currently reviewing the MS thesis of one of my students,
this is my third time thru and it is actually in pretty good shape. I
suspect only one or two
