My PhD dissertation was 380 pages - double spaced with book margins. It took 3 solid weeks (6 days a week, 8 hours).
It had 10 chapters - 9th for materials and methods and a 10th for references.
Five of those chapter were already published so they were simple cut and pastes with some reformatting.
The first chapter was a 100 page comprehensive review of my field and that took 1.5-2 weeks starting from scratch.
The other two chapters were unpublished work that required writing papers for. Once I was finished, I submitted them for publication as well.
I generally hate typing double spaced with wide margins. It is required formatting for page cutting and binding at my University. I started out writing font size 10, 1 inch margins, single spaced, with the intent of reformatting at the end. I ended up typing it straight up in the correct formatting. It was a bigger confidence booster to see the pages add up quicker.
It had 10 chapters - 9th for materials and methods and a 10th for references.
Five of those chapter were already published so they were simple cut and pastes with some reformatting.
The first chapter was a 100 page comprehensive review of my field and that took 1.5-2 weeks starting from scratch.
The other two chapters were unpublished work that required writing papers for. Once I was finished, I submitted them for publication as well.
I generally hate typing double spaced with wide margins. It is required formatting for page cutting and binding at my University. I started out writing font size 10, 1 inch margins, single spaced, with the intent of reformatting at the end. I ended up typing it straight up in the correct formatting. It was a bigger confidence booster to see the pages add up quicker.