You have an opportunity during viva prep to make your thesis as useful as possible for you. Thesis annotation doesn’t just mean writing notes in the margins. Perhaps using colour could help, for example:
- You could underline typos with red to mark them out simply.
- Use sticky notes to show the start of chapters or help locate important pages.
- Apply highlighters consistently to show certain kinds of information clearly.
- Use highlighter tabs as a colour-coding system of annotation.
These suggestions are just to start your thinking. There’s a lot more you could do when you consider the specifics of your thesis and the information in there.
How could you use a little colour to help your viva prep?
