I need to do the following things probably in the following order:
1. Grade Correspondence Portfolios
2. Write Postion Paper
3. Finish Research Log and Feasibility Studies
4. Grade Formal Reports
5. Grade Revisions
6. Pack
What am I doing right now? I'm procrasti-packing because most of the school related things don't sound like much fun. I also ate a juicy mango. It was so sweet and energizing.
For those interested in procrastinating, I also strongly recommend Game of Thrones from HBO. It's soooooooo good. Lindsey and I are hooked, and I think we're both ready to jump into reading the books too.
I best finish packing the kitchen and then head into the office to grade. :(
Showing posts with label paper writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paper writing. Show all posts
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Write or Die
So I'm having trouble writing lately, and everyone keeps telling me to just write crap and stop re-writing every sentence 8 times. I can fix it after it's there, but at least if I write it, I will have something to turn in.
I finally found a way.
My friend Maggie suggested I check out Write or Die. And I made some progress, which you can see below.
Woot! What I've written is horribly messy, but I got some ideas out, and I should be able to do some reorganizing and editing later. The content is finally being generated. I have 7 pages, so close to the halfway point!
There's nothing more motivating than a screen that flashes red and starts making noise when I am not making progress. It's also really nice to have a little timer and a word counter at the corner of the screen logging my progress.
I finally found a way.
My friend Maggie suggested I check out Write or Die. And I made some progress, which you can see below.
Woot! What I've written is horribly messy, but I got some ideas out, and I should be able to do some reorganizing and editing later. The content is finally being generated. I have 7 pages, so close to the halfway point!
There's nothing more motivating than a screen that flashes red and starts making noise when I am not making progress. It's also really nice to have a little timer and a word counter at the corner of the screen logging my progress.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Masters Defense...dun, dun dun! And the Paper I did not write.
So I'm trying to prepare to defend my masters project today.
One thing I may have a hard time with is Paradise Lost. It's a long and complicated text, and I can't keep all the angels and demons/devils straight, especially because I don't think Philip Pullman created exact parallels in His Dark Materials. I don't think Paradise Lost is that relevant to my project persay, but Dr. Smith is a hardcore Milton fan. Also, a lot of our attitudes about the Fall of Adam and Eve come from the widely read Paradise Lost as much as they do from the bible, so actually it is relevant. Since there is no time to read Paradise Lost for a third time in my life, I am sparknoting this morning, but I must say, Sparknotes offers some biased evaluation on the text, though they make attempts to be fair.
I'm also worried that no one will ask me about rhetorical theory in my defense since it's not relevant to the lit and tech writing people on my committee. I'm fairly sure they will ask me what I would do with the project in the future. I think I'll talk about its potential for book length development, but emphasize that while a full book focusing on the rhetoric of His Dark Materials is possible and would be interesting, my focus would be on developing the theory and using more example texts to illustrate the potential of the theory. That way I can draw in more Burke and what I did with Abby's paper last spring.
I'm nervous.
I also still need to write the paper that was due yesterday but that I had the wrong date for. I'm a putz, and grad school is melting my brain, but I think I have mulled through the topic enough to crank out a paper. It's funny how after completing my masters project a 15 page, well-supported paper seems like nothing.
I'm going to talk about the Indian nationalist movement to unify India through mapping the Mother Goddess over the nation of India and how that made India into a specifically Hindi nation, creating oppression for Muslim Indians and others.
Then I'm going to talk about how The Smile of Vanuvati traces the Mother Goddess back through history in the form of the parallels of land and an iconic doll in order to connect the Mother Goddess to a more open history of India, which is more inclusive of Muslims and other historically present groups.
The Smile of Vanuvati is set in the state of Gujarat, which has seen intense violence between Hindi and Muslin groups even in recent years, so the book is a timely response to the tensions there.
Okay, back to defense mode. I need to shower and get dressed.
One thing I may have a hard time with is Paradise Lost. It's a long and complicated text, and I can't keep all the angels and demons/devils straight, especially because I don't think Philip Pullman created exact parallels in His Dark Materials. I don't think Paradise Lost is that relevant to my project persay, but Dr. Smith is a hardcore Milton fan. Also, a lot of our attitudes about the Fall of Adam and Eve come from the widely read Paradise Lost as much as they do from the bible, so actually it is relevant. Since there is no time to read Paradise Lost for a third time in my life, I am sparknoting this morning, but I must say, Sparknotes offers some biased evaluation on the text, though they make attempts to be fair.
I'm also worried that no one will ask me about rhetorical theory in my defense since it's not relevant to the lit and tech writing people on my committee. I'm fairly sure they will ask me what I would do with the project in the future. I think I'll talk about its potential for book length development, but emphasize that while a full book focusing on the rhetoric of His Dark Materials is possible and would be interesting, my focus would be on developing the theory and using more example texts to illustrate the potential of the theory. That way I can draw in more Burke and what I did with Abby's paper last spring.
I'm nervous.
I also still need to write the paper that was due yesterday but that I had the wrong date for. I'm a putz, and grad school is melting my brain, but I think I have mulled through the topic enough to crank out a paper. It's funny how after completing my masters project a 15 page, well-supported paper seems like nothing.
I'm going to talk about the Indian nationalist movement to unify India through mapping the Mother Goddess over the nation of India and how that made India into a specifically Hindi nation, creating oppression for Muslim Indians and others.
Then I'm going to talk about how The Smile of Vanuvati traces the Mother Goddess back through history in the form of the parallels of land and an iconic doll in order to connect the Mother Goddess to a more open history of India, which is more inclusive of Muslims and other historically present groups.
The Smile of Vanuvati is set in the state of Gujarat, which has seen intense violence between Hindi and Muslin groups even in recent years, so the book is a timely response to the tensions there.
Okay, back to defense mode. I need to shower and get dressed.
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