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How do I politely ask my PhD advisor to review my work (thesis chapters/papers) in a timely manner?

You don’t do it politely. You trick them into reviewing your work.Graduate advisors always have something more important that they could be working on. The trick is to make your manuscript the most important thing that they need to be working on while being the least stressful work that they could be doing. There are a few things that I recommend doing:Don’t rely on your advisor to review anything. Instead go to your peers first before giving your advisor a draft.Along with point 1, your manuscript should be as polished as possible by the time it gets to your advisor. They might get caught up with every grammatical error and you’ll never get back edits.Tie them to a deadline. The best way is to circle the date when your funding runs out or when a submission deadline comes up and constantly remind your advisor that you need to leave by then or else you’ll become a huge monetary burden.You’ll always be getting edits. To get the most efficient use of your advisor’s time, give them a single polished chapter and work on the next set of edits. By the time, they finish making the edits, hand them the next chapter and work on making the corrections. When those corrections are done, give them back to your advisor so that they can work on the next round. Don’t give them a break.As always, there is an appropriate PhD comic to capture everything that I have described.Why you should never provide an unpolished draft:Drafts should always be as close to perfect when you hand them out otherwise you’re wasting everyone’s time. I know that even if I get a draft that is “still rough”, I’ll find myself coating the draft in red anyways.Providing a deadline:Edits come way faster if there is a deadline. Make sure that your advisor knows them or you should make them up.Accept the fact that multiple drafts will be required:Referring to the deadlines above, make sure you schedule the revision in. As mentioned, it helps to have the next set of edits ready to exchange when you get back a round of edits.Winning the battle of attrition:Eventually your advisor will just give up. That’s pretty much how I graduated.