The degree project represents an important part of higher education since it will examine the student´s knowledge in relation to the degree goals and the student´s ability to work independently under supervision. The supervision that is requested and given constitutes a central part of the student´s working process and depending on the supervision´s character it can also impact on the student´s possibilities to independence. Using as a point of departure the intention to make visible and to problematize our students’ ability to be independent, the aim of the study presented here is to identify the specific features of the written supervision which we as supervisors give to students in the form of comments. The attempt is auto-ethnographic, which means that we reflect over our own way to supervise. As support for the analysis parts of Bernstein´s theory have been used. The article describes and problematizes how we as supervisors have used comments in form of demands, exhortations and questions, the motives for the different kinds of comments and how different comments impact on the student´s possibility to use and show his/her ability to work independently. The article contributes with knowledge about what is happening during the supervision, it can be used as foundation for discussion about supervision in relation to the student´s independence and gives an example on self-reflection over one´s supervision.