Key information
- ✓Collect all comments in one table with priorities.
- ✓Improve your purpose, structure and methodology first.
- ✓Work from a copy and use change tracking.
- ✓After corrections, check dependent elements, lists and references.
Collect your comments in one place
Create a table with the note content, location, issue type, planned change, and status. Separate substantive comments from linguistic, technical and questions requiring consultation.
Connect repeated comments. An "inconsistency" comment may appear in several places but stem from a single issue, such as unclear purpose or changed terminology.
Determine the order in which changes should be made
First, revise your title, purpose, questions, hypotheses, method, and plan. Then move on to the argument and missing sources. Leave language correction and formatting until the content is stable.
If a promoter asks you to remove or move a large section, check all references to it. Changing one chapter may require correction of the introduction, conclusion and table of contents.
Safe work with document versions
Save a copy of the received version and give subsequent files dates or numbers. Turn on change tracking if the promoter wants to see the scope of interference, but also prepare a blank document before final submission.
Don't move fragments between multiple files without checking the styles. Copying may corrupt numbering, footnotes, and heading formatting.
Inspection after corrections are completed
Read the document for each category of comments, not just the highlighted areas. Check that the new definitions are applied consistently and that the conclusions correspond to the changed questions.
Finally, refresh the table of contents, lists of tables, numbering and bibliography. If scope is difficult to assess, a professional audit can help uncover dependencies missed during DIY fixes.
Turn a general comment into a verifiable outcome
The comment 'please deepen the analysis' does not yet tell you how much text to add. First establish what is missing: comparison of sources, explanation of a mechanism, a connection to the research question or limitations on interpretation. In a teaching example, a description of three definitions may need an explanation of their differences and justification for selecting one. Adding more definitions will not solve this problem. In your revision table, record the expected outcome: 'compare the criteria and justify the adopted understanding of the concept'. Then determine how you will recognise completion. If a comment allows several substantially different interpretations, prepare a proposed solution for consultation. A concrete proposal makes it easier for your supervisor to respond and protects against rebuilding the chapter in the wrong direction. Do not mark a comment as resolved simply because a new paragraph appeared nearby.
Map dependencies between revisions
When you have many comments, record which changes trigger others. Narrowing the aim may require changes to the question, literature selection, method description and conclusion. Standardising a category name affects the instrument, tables and commentary on the results. You can show this chain in a few lines without specialist software. Start with the originating element and only then update the dependent passages. Otherwise, you may end up revising the same sentences repeatedly. For every major decision, check the thesis title, introduction, methodology and final conclusions. These are the places where inconsistency most often remains after a local correction. A terminology change also requires careful searches for inflected forms, but automatically replacing every occurrence can distort quotations and publication titles, so always read the result.
Keep a decision trail when comments conflict
Comments from different stages may appear contradictory because they concern different document versions. Before concluding that requirements are incompatible, check each comment's date, passage and context. An earlier suggestion to expand the theoretical section may already have been addressed, while a later comment concerns excessive repetition of a particular issue. Record both comments and a brief interpretation of the problem in your notes. If the conflict remains, show your supervisor two possible solutions and their implications for the thesis. Do not choose the more convenient comment without explanation. Keeping a decision trail also helps when more than one person provides advice. Final decisions about the thesis should align with your supervisor's and faculty's requirements, and supplementary suggestions should be assessed in that context. This prevents revisions from becoming a sequence of disconnected alterations.
Check a revision together with its surroundings
After changing a passage, also read the preceding and following paragraphs. A new sentence may be correct in itself but repeat an earlier conclusion or introduce a subsection that has already been removed. Check references to tables, chapter numbers and appendices as well. If you add a source, update the bibliography and make sure it actually supports the new claim. Do not treat a source as decoration added in response to a comment. For results, trace every numerical change from the dataset through the table, description and conclusion. Record why the correction was made, particularly when it removes a calculation error. After completing a group of changes, read the entire chapter continuously. Only this reading reveals whether the revisions have created a more coherent argument or merely a collection of local responses to comments.
Prepare a clear resubmission
Attach a brief account of the most important changes to the revised version. Identifying the comment, how you addressed it and its location in the document is enough. You do not need to describe every comma. Highlight issues still awaiting a decision instead of burying them among completed tasks. If you use Track Changes, check whether your supervisor wants to see every intervention or separate clean and marked-up versions. Do not automatically accept all changes without reading them: some may affect the meaning of specialist terms. Remove accidental working comments but retain questions intended for consultation. Give the file an unambiguous name and use the agreed submission channel. Finally, indicate which stages remain after content approval, such as the final list of tables or PDF check. This will help set a realistic next deadline.
Summary
It is worth treating the supervisor's comments as a system of related tasks, not a list of random corrections. Change the foundations of your work first, then the content, and finally the language and formatting. A document with a clear history of changes is easier to consult again and safer to prepare for submission.
Frequently asked questions
Do you have to accept every comment from the promoter?
Comments should be analyzed and usually implemented, but in case of contradictions or ambiguity, it is worth asking for clarification rather than guessing the expected result.
Where to start when there are a lot of comments?
From notes on purpose, questions, structure and method. Correcting commas before rebuilding a chapter leads to doing the same work several times.
Can I send the promoter's comments for valuation?
Yes. Send the current file, comments, guidelines and deadline to our website. After the analysis, you will receive information on the scope of corrections needed.
Should I delete a comment immediately after making a change?
First check whether the change resolves the stated problem and creates no inconsistency elsewhere. Only then mark the comment as completed according to your agreed workflow. Keep the original comments in an archive copy. This lets you reconstruct their meaning if a question about the previous version arises during the next consultation.
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