Wednesday, October 26, 2011

D-day -128 (-12)

National holiday means work-on-Thesis-without-unnecessary-breaks day for Thesis Questers. I've today done my first revision of the text I'd written so far, which made the daily moment of word counting extra exciting - would I have cut away more than I had added? In the end, it turned out I added a tiiiiny bit more text than I removed, or 72 words to be more specific. This revision means I've also updated my accomplishment status on a whole bunch of sections, which looks nice on the score board.

Today I also made a major change in Methodology (for how the Quest Stats are measured, not in the Thesis). I realised that with so much Schloss time now being spent on Beaver, the accumulated time is not a good measure of how long it takes to write a Thesis. I've for this reason added a correction parameter, equivalent to the amount of time spend working on non-Thesis related issues. Which of course makes the stats from this day forward completely uncomparable to all previously published stats. I do however, have the Maste Excel File, where all is fine, correct and perfect. Yes, you will still get to see the Stats Graph some day soon.

Today's Achievements
Status: working-home-day, complete read-through completed
Detailed progress: polished up texts all over the place, added a biofuel figure, added a bunch of references, reformulated RQ1
Hours in Luft-Schloss: 9
Figures included: 1 
Words written: 72 (net word count, after performing heavy trimming AND rewriting simultaneously)

Overall Quest Stats 
Hours in Schloss+Luftschloss REVISED181
Words written: 19716 (109 words/h REVISED)
Figures included: 19
Tables included: 4
Equations included: 2
Overall accomplishment level:  55%
Quest level: 9 - Official Research Assistant

Status - detailed report (%) 
Abstract0
Sammanfattning0
List of Papers100
Thesis outline100
1. Introduction90
2. Related studies0
3. Background57.5
4. Biomass gasification84
5. Studied systems100
6. Methodology90
7. Results and analysis52
8. Concluding discussion0
Acknowledgements0
Papers
100

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