Planning a Thesis or Dissertation: Word Budgets, Source Matrices, Milestones, Writing Pace & Feedback Rounds
Plan a thesis like a project: words per chapter, a source matrix, milestones back from the deadline, writing pace and feedback rounds, with every cell checked as you go.
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About this course
This course plans a fictional master's thesis in a spreadsheet. You split a word limit into chapters with a clean rounding remainder and pages, work deadlines backwards from the submission date with WORKDAY and a holiday list, measure the slack with NETWORKDAYS, turn a weekly word-count log into words per session and a projected finish date with FORECAST.LINEAR, count a source matrix by theme and method with COUNTIFS, convert a reading list into hours and weeks, plan survey invitations and interview workload from response rates, track supervisor turnaround and open comments, and finish with a weighted progress dashboard, IFS status flags and a chart.
Lessons
- The Word Budget: Chapter Shares, Words per Chapter & Pages Pro
- Milestones Backwards: Chapter Deadlines from the Submission Date with WORKDAY Pro
- Writing Pace: Words per Session, Weeks Still Needed & a Projected Finish Date Pro
- The Source Matrix: Sources by Theme, Year & Method with COUNTIFS Pro
- Reading Backlog: Pages, Reading Speed, Hours & the Week It Is Cleared Pro
- Data Collection: Invitations from Response Rates, Interview & Transcription Hours Pro
- Feedback Rounds: Supervisor Turnaround, Open Comments & Revision Cycles Pro
- Thesis Dashboard: Weighted Progress, Status Flags & a Words Chart Pro