I’m 100% sure mine doesn’t.
does your advisor bother reading what you write?
My adviser has a reputation for reading what his students write to a pathological degree. All his current students complain about the degree of oversight and the amount of thought he puts into the placement of a comma.
On the other hand, his former students universally agree that the process of dealing with idiosyncratic feedback has invariably made them better writers. Mathematics would benefit greatly if there were more advisers like mine.
My adviser has a reputation for reading what his students write to a pathological degree. All his current students complain about the degree of oversight and the amount of thought he puts into the placement of a comma.
On the other hand, his former students universally agree that the process of dealing with idiosyncratic feedback has invariably made them better writers. Mathematics would benefit greatly if there were more advisers like mine.
Complain all you want, but please appreciate that he actually cares. Alternatives I have seen include letting errors slip through, ignoring you, or just circling a large section and putting "rewrite" next to the circle.
I have come to the realisation that there is a huge variance between students whose advisor spoon feed them and more or less write their theses and advisors who literally doesn’t even bother to read what you write let alone help you in any way when you get stuck or need feedback. But of course, you cannot tell this to anyone, so if you do something good, everyone will assume your advisor gave you some degree of help, and if you do something bad, nobody will care whether your advisor gave you even a word of help or not.
I had a line embedded in the proof of my main theorem “My advisor John Doe is a huge piece of shit who didn’t bother to read my thesis.” It’s preserved for posterity in ProQuest — he still hasn’t discovered it 11 years after my PhD.
Nice way to out yourself on MJR!
I had a line embedded in the proof of my main theorem “My advisor John Doe is a huge piece of shit who didn’t bother to read my thesis.” It’s preserved for posterity in ProQuest — he still hasn’t discovered it 11 years after my PhD.
Nice way to out yourself on MJR!
Wording probably altered.
My adviser has a reputation for reading what his students write to a pathological degree. All his current students complain about the degree of oversight and the amount of thought he puts into the placement of a comma.
On the other hand, his former students universally agree that the process of dealing with idiosyncratic feedback has invariably made them better writers. Mathematics would benefit greatly if there were more advisers like mine.
Complain all you want, but please appreciate that he actually cares. Alternatives I have seen include letting errors slip through, ignoring you, or just circling a large section and putting "rewrite" next to the circle.
Oh I appreciate it very much. I've personally never felt like the writing feedback he gives was too onerous.
no
and here I was just understating. I actually think what I’m doing is interesting but I would go at a much better speed with a better advisor.
Then find someone better to talk to and convince them to talk to you. If you need it you have to do it yourself, because your advisor is apparently not going to do so.
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