Just finishing off my essay that has to be submitted tomorrow. Word count is 2000 words +/- 10% so it can be between 1800 and 2200. Just counted mine and it's hit 2255. :bang:

Got to shave of 55 words without messing it up.

Grrrr........

1986Uno45S said:

Just finishing off my essay that has to be submitted tomorrow. Word count is 2000 words +/- 10% so it can be between 1800 and 2200. Just counted mine and it's hit 2255. :bang:

Got to shave of 55 words without messing it up.

Grrrr........

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easy

You have it easy

Dissertation = 33,568 words (142 pages)

Skills acquired report = 48,5000 words (176 pages)

In about 1 hour, it will all be finished and complete, ready for printing in the morning and binding in the afternoon!

1986Uno45S said:

Just finishing off my essay that has to be submitted tomorrow. Word count is 2000 words +/- 10% so it can be between 1800 and 2200. Just counted mine and it's hit 2255. :bang:

Got to shave of 55 words without messing it up.

Grrrr........

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Remove all the "the"s - should still just about make sense

The Negotiator said:

Skills acquired report = 48,5000 words (176 pages)

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That's a lot of words number skill still to be acquired then

lol Knock off a zero if you want, maybe I was writing how long it actually feels! That does include 20,000 words of work logs in the appendices though, you know, to bulk it out!

2226 now. Argh! :bang:

Paul, I don't envy you in the slightest! Apart from the fact you've nearly finished your course and I've barely started

Going back to remove all the 'the', 'a', 'it' etc...

Another year to go though, and the hardest one! 26 words is nothing We all have to do live by stupid report lengths though, although being an engineer we usually work by page length and appendices don't count, so you know where lots of stuff goes

Just wondering if my laptop will break...

Page 72 check out of the 100 of the main document....not many to go!

The Negotiator said:

You have it easy

Dissertation = 33,568 words (142 pages)

Skills acquired report = 48,5000 words (176 pages)

In about 1 hour, it will all be finished and complete, ready for printing in the morning and binding in the afternoon!

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please say you have some sort of program that actually counts them for you?

No? I just sit here producing tally charts??

tstaboy said:

please say you have some sort of program that actually counts them for you?

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MS Word:

Select 'Tools'.

Then 'Word Count'.

As if by magic the number of words used in the document appear in a little box :slayer:

2165 words now :woot:

Final checks, do the front page, email it to my hotmail account (for security, just in case), back it up on my computer and make sure it is still on my pen drive. Then I've just got to go in tomorrow, print it out and stick it in the submissions box.

All done? No! Then I spend all week revising for my exams next Monday and Tuesday. June the 6th and then I'm free!!!!!!

I am free June 6th too, as that's when I plan to have my word delivered (either by Royal Mail special delivery or by hand, 200 mile round trip to hand in work....LOL). Last data is the 8th, so assuming my binders mess up, I will be weeing myself by then. Conclusion left to check....then I can sit back, have a glass of coke and watch Scrubs

when i did my programming assignment in college, we were given a list of features and functions that must be included in our code to get full marks, so i wrote an EPOS system for an imaginary Currency Exchange company. I used 175 pages having to explain, in detail, every single procedure/routine/function and equation....


I will never do that again as long as i live.

Its boring and tiring enough coding it in the first place, but then to go through it all again and have to explain everything was just exhausting and fustrating. Got the highest mark ever tho... every single one had only been achieved a couple of times before so i was well chuffed

It's done.....

*takes a deep breath*

Printed my dissertation and taken the two copies for binding. It's such a worrying time though

I know so many things could go wrong between now and hand in

...I should stop worrying

Got to get used to it Paul.. You spend months of your hard work setting up a system.. hand it over and then you wait for the inevitable phone call to say someone has broken it

Handing over something you have put your life into to someone else is always hard to do, but you can't micro-manage everything you do. That's what staff are for

In my short life I have learnt that few people ever do their job right, when they do, it impresses me. This is why I am so worried about it. If it doesn't get done properly and within time, I jepordise my whole degree!

I just printed off one of the copies of my SAR, it's so thick it's funny, or not so if you happen to be a tree.

Final word count = 2175

25 words short of the absolute maximum

All submitted on time today, though at only 12 pages long it pales into insignificance compared with Paul's dissertation Was a bit mad at one of our tutors who gave us guide sheets for filling in the submission paperwork as I found out she'd missed out important bits of information. Only found out because I'd double checked the official checklist on the submission box, so went back to the college library and added the missing bits to my front page. And the guide sheet we were given for doing Harvard referencing had errors in it :bang: Managed to get that sorted too, but I don't like doing things in the last few minutes. At least I got it all done though

Now I have to spend the rest of the week revising for my academic exam next Monday, and my OSCE (Observed Scenario Clinical Examination i.e. 'practical' ) next Tuesday and then it's all over for a couple of months. :slayer:

GOod luck

In your defence, you haven't had a year to complete your work, I have

write it in text talk next time