{"id":4037,"date":"2015-05-28T12:35:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T23:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/?p=4037"},"modified":"2016-08-01T10:07:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T21:07:57","slug":"finishers-wisdom-tip-8-no-comments-is-a-good-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/?p=4037","title":{"rendered":"Finishers&#8217; Wisdom: Tip #8 &#8211; No Comments is a Good Sign!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Recent doctoral thesis finishers Emma Kelly and Wendy Moore got together at the latest AUT Postgraduate Writers\u2019 Retreat to collate their 10 top tips for working on a PhD thesis. ThesisLink is publishing their insights over two weeks in our latest blogging event: Finishers\u2019 Wisdom! Enjoy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tip #8: If your supervisor doesn\u2019t comment on a paragraph they probably think it\u2019s really good (ask them!)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Supervisors provide feedback in different ways. Ask your supervisor about their style. I was amazed to find out that one of my supervisors thought anything that had no comment on it was really good.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/Margin-space.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-4115 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/Margin-space.jpg?resize=257%2C378&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Margin space\" width=\"257\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/Margin-space.jpg?w=257&amp;ssl=1 257w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/Margin-space.jpg?resize=102%2C150&amp;ssl=1 102w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/Margin-space.jpg?resize=204%2C300&amp;ssl=1 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Tip: Ask your supervisor about their feedback style. Tell them what feedback you want\/need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent doctoral thesis finishers Emma Kelly and Wendy Moore got together at the latest AUT Postgraduate Writers&rsquo; Retreat to collate their 10 top tips for working on a PhD thesis. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6725,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[43,104,69],"class_list":["post-4037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-category-3","tag-drafting","tag-feedback","tag-supervision"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p83npQ-137","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6725"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4116,"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037\/revisions\/4116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}