A graduate student rewrote their PhD chapter's methodology and literature review based on advisor feedback, but the theoretical section still feels disjointed and unengaging. They're stuck trying to make the framework 'pop' without knowing how, and joke about a dense 1987 Smith paper as a cautionary tale of scholarship that refuses to sing.
So I incorporated all your feedback on Chapter 3. I rewrote the methodology and updated the lit review. Great, great. I read it over. I still feel like the ontology isn't quite singing to me. Singing? Like an opera or a pop song? It just needs some more synthesis. Have you read that 1987 paper by Smith? The one on paradigm harmonization? The one that's 400 pages written in Old English? Yeah, it didn't sing either. Just make the theoretical framework pop. You've got this. I literally have no idea what to do next.
