A PhD student describes the literature review as the hardest part of their dissertation. Supervisors kept asking for more citations and clearer arguments in endless revision cycles, making them wonder when the feedback would finally stop.
The literature review, chapter 2, probably was the hardest if you talk about chapters. Like I said, I've never done the thesis route. I didn't do the writing, but to get all the pushback of, you need to go explain it, explain it, go find some more citations, go find some more citations. No, you need to explain it. It just was like, when does this stop? So yeah, the literature review was the, I think the hardest part that took the longest for me.
