I will give my feedback by annotating the (draft) thesis by using a set of symbols (abbreviations) that I list below. Please us line distance 1.5 to facilitate me in providing feedback. The symbols will be encircled in the thesis. I will provide a brief explanation of each symbol and abbreviation. If available, I will also link the specific annotation to the blog entry with a detailed elaboration.
Structure and style
Symbol
Explanation
Blog
OVERSTRUCT
You have to many text elements that deal with structure. In many cases, these element are not necessary. For instance, to write as the first line of a section titled ‘Results’: This section presents the results of this resarch. This is an abundant sentence: what else would you want to present in a section with the title ‘Results’.
OVERLEVEL
You have too many sublevels in the section numbering.
References Incomplete (some references in the main text may not appear in the reference list and/or some references in the references list are not referred to from the main text.
REF
Reference missing. I make this comment usually when a reference is needed to support a statement or an argument.
COPY
You copied parts of another work. You may have violated copyrights or plagiarism standards. This can happen when you copy complete parts of a text, figures or tables from another work withour permission of the author (copyright) or reference (plagiarims)
Tables, figures, equations and numbers
Symbol
Explanation
Blog
DEC
Error against number formatting: US vs EU decimal separator