Failure to keep these appointments is a sufficient reason for ending the project. A work schedule should be discussed. The advisor's role is to give advice and to answer specific questions, not to provide and argument or to locate evidence. Students should avoid asking for such help, and advisors should avoid offering such help. The advisor should ask questions that challenge the student in an effort to stimulate a more critical perspective and tightly reasoned essay.
Some faculty have a quick turn-around time, others take longer.
Advisors should take great care in pressing their own points of view. Any student who thinks that her own point of view is being lost should raise the matter with her advisors as soon as possible. This has been a listing of some of the prerequisites of an honors paper. It is incomplete, but it offers a springboard for further discussion between a student and her advisors. Prior to that point, all work is independent work .