Boiling down related work

The first step for my internal presentation for my PhD-thesis-advisor is to concentrate the related work into edible chunks. Focus on the main facts, try to find questions for the already related work and base your idea on that. Make sure know how to address the questions not solved by the other papers and point out the (extreme) difficulties which you deal with.
Also precisely define your context and what you are going to leave out and what not. What is essential to your work, what has already been addressed and is not part of your work, but only a side-dish (just to stick with the food analogy).

Well ... one week of work ahead of me. Let's start asap.

Back from Vacation: Working on thesis proposal

Hi Folks,

just wanted to let you know I am back from vacation and ready to do some research.
My colleagues spent the last couple of days setting up the nice "Trac" project admin guide-tool which should support us during the development phase of our ideas.
I am writing on the thesis structure and the proposal which will include the four big paragraphs

• Introduction
• Hypothesis
• Research Plan
• Evaluation/Evaluative Aspects

After writing this, my professor should be able to give me proper guidance how to proceed in the project and whether I should change some things or not. I guess I got quite far, so far.