In *nix, there is a utility called wc (word count).
It provides number of lines, words, and characters in a given document or set of documents.
I looked at the wrong column for my thesis. I do not have 42K words. I have 6370.
Oops. I suppose that makes a lot more sense. Now I question my own sniff test skills - DUH. What was I thinking?
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Does it really matter how many words are in your thesis? FWIW, my thesis contained 4 individual studies and was still only 25K words (not including references) - the whole thing was 120 pages long. The maximum for our grad school was 80K words.
It doesn't matter - I would actually like it as short as possible (brevity is harder then length!). I just feel silly that I thought I had written 42K words when a sniff test should have shown me that was impossible, and that I was 7x off. Silly me!
I'm actually relieved! I've written large chunks of mine, and I'm around 8K, and that took me a looooong time, so I've been sitting here thinking that you've been writing amazingly fast. (You're still fast -- you've knocked out 6K really quickly -- but I'm not feeling totally inferior anymore!)
Don't worry about number of words! What's important is that you are actually getting any words written consistently!
I have to say, I agree with Nicky! I hadn't been looking at # words until you posted when you were around the 30 K mark. I looked at my own then and decided you were wonder woman for getting that amount written!
You're still wonder woman-anyone completeing a PhD is!
So is this a Thesis or a Dissertation? I have no clue how many words my thesis was because it didn't matter. Just so long as I got my point across. My fiction novel is another matter where they prefer fiction novels to be about 100,000 words (I believe).
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