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Finally... => Life Advice => Topic started by: Zombie0hour on October 08, 2009, 08:28:13 pm
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So there is this big three week project and the final draft is due tomorrow. Its a Lit Analysis paper 2 pages, on one of these three stories. I didn't do the rough draft and I dun feel like doing the final even thou its worth like 40 percent of this semesters grade but im failing hard anyway. Its 6:27pm and I am really not sure what to do. I am leaning into the direction of f%*^ it three day weekend starts tomorrow after school. So I dun know. ::)
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Bullshit like a madman, it's doable. If you've read the material just write as fast as you can. Unless you're absolutely positive that you're going to fail the course anyway, you may as well try. Hell, it's only two pages.
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HUGE Lit Analysis Paper
Well now, let's see what it's about and I'm sure we can figure out-
two pages
::)
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page xx of google, Something thats an Html, Start dumbing it down, change the order, put new pictures,replace words.
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If you decide to not turn in anything, you're an idiot. Do what Aqizzar said, take the paragraph or two of the actual writing you can probably think of and stretch it out with as much redundancy, bullshit, and long names you can come up with. Make up unnecessary analogies for everything in the story if you're really desperate.
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You need to think.
Think very very carefully.
You need pain.
Slap your arm as hard as you possibly can.
Now slap the other arm as hard as you possibly can.
now run from that, but instead of running, write like a madman.
If you stop, use more pain.
godspeed.
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The pain isn't to make some sort of cult-ritual.
its to enforce a diffrent state of mind, perhaps one more panicked, less relaxed, and less calm.
wot wot.
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Typed or handwritten? If typed, that's about 800 words, you may get away with less if you have large handwriting and it is a handwritten paper. Either way, it's not actually that much work. Maybe an hour, hour and a half for the actual writing and another hour coming up with ideas. 40% of your mark is a lot to catch up for if you realise later on you need to pass this subject.
Believe me, deciding not to do it will NOT help in the long (or even short) run, and if you do a good enough job you might reverse your current position of 'failing hard'
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If you waited this long to do anything, you probably deserve the F. Just saying.
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Wait wait wait; 40% of your mark for a 2 page paper? Furthermore, 3 weeks?
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I'm not sure what's so difficult about that, what have you been doing for the past 3 weeks? If you wrote a mere 100 words a day, you'd have it done by now. (Though I'm not really one to talk; I tend to wait until the day before they're due to do my assignments. There's a difference between middle-school assignments and high-school assignments, though...)
I mean, if you have to, look up a summary of the story on the internet, look at the characters, and just draw as many parallels to other works as possible. Find the time period it was written, look up popular books during that period, and write a paragraph or two on how it was 'obviously influenced by <insert writer>'.
I wrote a six page report on a story I didn't even read last year in two days, and I ended up with 93% on it. It's really just about your interpretation of the story; as long as it sounds believable, you can at the very least pass. Then again, your teacher may be looking for very specific things.
Anyways, two pages is only about an hour and a half of work, if you do it quickly.
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You had three weeks to do a 2-page paper and you gave up?
wat
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2 pages.
3 weeks.
DOES NOT COMPUTE. DOOD WAT.
Take Aqizzar's advice and run with the bullshit because really, taking that long for a tiny assignment is kinda sad.
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It's too late now. He's outta time, judging by time of post. Here's hoping he managed to do it.
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Well that's a bummer. But seriously, 2 pages? At most that should be 3 hours of work, 1.5 if you're doing a rush job.
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I have to write two pages of speech/emotion synthesis literature review by tommorrow. And another two pages by Monday. And some conclusion by Tuesday morning. And I had 11 weeks to do it. I could sympathize with the guy; 25% of my marks is based on this paper :P
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Its 6:27pm and I am really not sure what to do.
Write the essay instead of posting here? It's not like 2 pages is some Herculean task to accomplish in, say, a few hours.
Edit: Though I note you haven't posted since the OP. GOOD JOB!
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What kind of English classes do you guys take? In my English classes, there is no BSing. The teachers home in on it like angry wasps to pearly flesh.
Though I suppose getting a 50% is infinitely preferable to a 0%. I wonder how this went.
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As long as you support your BS, it's not really BS. If the question asks you "Describe one theme of the novel, and say why you thought it was important" you can name damn near ANYTHING as the theme, as long as you support it. There's no controls on what novels you actually use, and the markers aren't expected to know them all. Still, BS is a fine art, it's easier in some cases to do the work.
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I'm a Sophomore, majoring in Literature.
Lit Crit classes are literally nothing but BS. :D
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BS? Welcome to Literature.
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That's how we roll.
Also, you have to be a good BS'er, otherwise your GPA will go straight to hell.
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(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/impostor.png)
I majored in comparative literature in university and I can vouch for the truth of the above comic.
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Ah yes, literature. I've done some of my best bullshitting in literature, which is ironic because I pretty much always read what I'm supposed to. Did manage to write a seven page paper about the differences between A Clockwork Orange book and movie versions, without seeing or reading more than half of either.
Still, that doesn't even compare to the monumental bovine excrement that's saved my History minor a couple times.
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Christ. I steer a mile clear of anything with the phrase "literary criticism" involved, or hell, any kind of criticism besides "constructive." I'd sure never take a class in it.
Postmodern wank for people with more brains than common sense.
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a paper for critisizing people who write bad papers?
maybe high schools should use this on their "students"
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a paper for critisizing people who write bad papers?
maybe high schools should use this on their "students"
I've had several such papers in college, where students had to (anonymously) grade other student's papers. I imagine it's not used much in high schools because everyone is a lot more familiar and could probably figure out who they're grading.
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Slightly late, but:
http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo (http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo)
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BS? Welcome to Literature.
Last year, my class was reading "The Awakening." The teacher was pissed that no one was doing the reading, so she picked someone random at the beginning of every class to lead discussion on the book for half an hour or so.
I hadn't read anything past the tenth page, and we were on page 80 or something by then. Guess who got chosen to lead discussion?
I panicked a bit at the beginning, but read about four sentences as I was walking to the front of the class, and threw out some last minute question about the imagery in the paragraph. During the five minutes when everyone was discussing my question, I skimmed the ten or so pages that we had been assigned to read the previous night. Then I knew enough about it to lead a somewhat legit discussion for the next 20 minutes.
I so had an A in that class. ;D