The thesis statement for the third chapter of my dissertation needed to be rewritten several times before it became apparent that the issue was not with the sentence at all, but with the arguments presented in it. I did not know the arguments even. The advisor circled one paragraph, put a margin comment, saying “you do not believe in this,” and gave it back without further comments.

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My return edit contained four fewer pages than the first edit. The only feedback I got this time from my advisor was a query about the second set of experiments; I took this as a step forward. But still, the initial edit is filed away in the folder mainly as a testimony to how much I could write and say nothing.