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Wei also recommends including ideas that seem irrelevant to the thesis during initial drafts because they could be pertinent if the writer unexpectedly reformulates the paper.
To maintain a train of thought, he says thesis writers should leave themselves notes when they want to refer to an article, instead of stopping their writing to look back through dozens of volumes.
Then again, it's not just diligent note taking and precise highlighting that lead a thesis writer to success. More unconventional tactics can calm a senior's mind in the face of pressure and make the process run more smoothly.
Wei says he has tested the benefits of combining alcohol and academics, writing his thesis while drinking a beer. Anna M. Harr '99, a women's studies concentrator, bought children's flip sunglasses with fish-shaped lenses, which she dons when she works on her thesis.
And thesis writers say it's not just stacks of books, interviews, experiments and pages and pages of writing that they learn from while writing a thesis.