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Warning! <\/strong>This post is all about me (as always). Better yet, each paragraph starts with I<\/strong>. Bad writing. Semi-good “my heads about to explode because I’m writing papers again” ranting…
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I woke up quite early this morning – for a Saturday – and toddled down to my office to get down to the serious business of writing my History paper. I’ve decided to put the past (lower than desired discussion marks) behind me. At least for the moment. I need to focus on trying to figure out just exactly what I’m supposed to be doing to get a decent mark on papers. See, this is the class where I’ve already been chastized for doing “too much” research and going “outside of the bounds” of the original assigned readings.<\/p>\n

I’m still trying to figure out how you can over research a paper. I guess that’s one of the things I still need to learn about formal education. Me, I tend to read the assigned reading. Then I head off to the university library or the online journals available through the library and start searching for additional articles relating to the subject. I want to know as much about it before I start pontificating about the topic. More importantly, I want to read the criticisms and alternate views. I want to be well armed before I make the frontal assault on my paper and start typing.<\/p>\n

I just don’t by into forming an opinion about anything without having viewed at least two different versions of events or thoughts on a subject.<\/p>\n

I tried very hard to remedy that in paper #2. I stuck to the assigned readings and barely ventured off the paved path set in front of me by the prof. This, of course, was based entirely on the feedback I received from paper #1. I have no idea if I was successful since it has yet to be returned to me. Paper #3 is due on Tuesday. I had wanted to complete it by Monday but I don’t know if I’ll be 100% comfortable submitting it without seeing any feedback on #2 first. *sigh*<\/p>\n

I’ve been typing snippets of phrases and points I want to cover in my paper all week. I’ve made notes and got my citations in order. I’ve even got a few paragraphs put together (though not ordered). This weekend is supposed to be dedicated to getting all that junk into some reasonable facsimile of coherence. Knowing how I normally write papers, I expect to be spending about 10 hours today and 10 hours tomorrow putting everything together and writing the final product. I’m sure it’s not the recommended method for writing papers but it’s the one that works for me.<\/p>\n

I’m about 50% complete but still uncomfortable at the thought of walking blind through the process as I’m worried I may have once again “over researched” my subject. Worst still, I’m worried that I’ll feel this way all through the remainder of my university experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Warning! This post is all about me (as always). Better yet, each paragraph starts with I. Bad writing. Semi-good “my heads about to explode because I’m writing papers again” ranting… I woke up quite early this morning – for a Saturday – and toddled down to my office to get down to the serious business […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}