@SeaFury@aus.social I am supervising my first PhD student and I am quite happy when they email me mid week "sorry I am not sure what you meant" rather than wait until next meeting. Our training is in research, and we learn teaching, mentoring and other academic tasks as we go. Also, advice: do not write for your supervisor or for yourself, but for a distracted reader with the attention span of a toddler because they're working on too many things at once (the average academic, including journal reviewers).