Enter your start date, submission date and target length. The planner splits your writing time across chapters, adds time for supervisor review and formatting, and shows how many words per day the plan needs. It runs entirely in your browser, and nothing you type is stored or sent anywhere.
Your plan
Chapters: name and share of words (%)
The word count and chapter shares are only example starting values. Replace them with your university's rules and the norms in your department.
How the planner works
- It subtracts your supervisor-review days and your formatting and checking days from the total time to the submission date.
- The remaining days are divided among chapters in proportion to the shares you enter. A chapter with a bigger share gets more days.
- It divides the total words by the number of writing days available (based on the days per week you choose) to find the average words per writing day.
This is a writing plan, not a research planExperiments, data collection, field work and reading take time too. If those still lie ahead, set your start date after them, or lengthen the timeline. Keep the dates as a draft and agree them with your supervisor.
Tips for a realistic plan
- Be conservative about writing days. Include teaching, exams, illness and holidays. Five writing days per week is optimistic for many students.
- Write while you work. Draft methodology while designing the study and results while analysing, so that your writing time later is shorter.
- Expect supervisor delays. Feedback can take weeks. Give review time in the plan and keep working on another chapter while you wait.
- Protect the last month. Leave room for formatting, the similarity check, final proofreading and forms. Last-week surprises are common.
- Review every month. Re-run the planner with what you have actually written and adjust.
Pair this with the thesis writing checklist to see what has to be finished at each stage.