thesis citation check

Have a draft of my thesis again and checking citations. Titled: Emotional Truth in the Shadow of History: Analysing the Intersection of Fact and Fiction in Srebrenica Novels by Non-Bosnian Authors
 
For those following, I had a draft in January of this year that I had to throw away and basically begin again, re-writing it into a literary studies analysis approach. So I’ve been hard at work getting that done.
 
Have a draft, and as usual I am over the wordcount. I’ve printed a version and am going through and checking all my citations, so checking quotes word by word to see if they are correct in punctuation and how they are written, checking my bibliography, checking that all the pages I have cited are correct. Have a lot of the books that I used, but have to get a few from the library again to fact check. And also looking for where I can cull word count, because as usual I am over.
 
Had a panic attack that my argument about intermarriage in Yugoslavia being wildly exaggerated and not supported by data was incorrect. Found a thesis by an academic who looked at this topic themselves and used the same scholar to support this claim that I did, and am feeling every relieved that my argument holds.
 
Still a bit of work to do in terms of editing, proofing, and fact-checking, but am feeling hopeful that I will be submitting either by the end of this year or school holidays. Keep your fingers crossed for me that my seven year journey is ending soon.