Silly old me, thinking that at some point the first few chapters of my thesis should become stable...
The fact is that no matter it’s the second time or the twentieth time of revising any chapter, there are always things to change/improve.
@xp_eileen_maths There always is.
Funny thing is my supervisor would directly write sentences in my writing, and a few weeks later she would pick on her own earlier writing and tell me to change that...
@harold @xp_eileen_maths The most directly useful thing I knew in writing my thesis was to not use a semicolon anywhere in it. Had one person on my committee who saw no reason for any sentence to ever have the symbol.
It was a sacrifice, as I'm a compulsive sentence-splicer, but I know I saved myself a lot of petty revisions by remembering that rule.
@xp_eileen_maths I think that he had a precise sense of what the semicolon properly represented, and chose that as his grammatical hill to die on. As committee-member quirks go, it's one of my favorites.
@harold hahaha that happens too