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Dec. 9th, 2004 08:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cleolindaYou know how, when you're writing a paper, sometimes you just hit that wall? That wall, like, five pages before you've reached your length requirement, where you're just like, "Dude, I have nothing left to say. Paper as it currently stands? Pretty much says everything"?
Yeah. I hit that wall about an hour ago.
P.S. I never, ever want to hear anything about Paradise Lost again. EVER.
Yeah. I hit that wall about an hour ago.
P.S. I never, ever want to hear anything about Paradise Lost again. EVER.
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Date: 2004-12-09 06:59 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-12-09 07:10 am (UTC)ummm..... filler?
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Date: 2004-12-09 07:22 am (UTC)He offered a PL course as well. I knew better than to take it, and the other course I took from him was a seminar in 16th century literature, so I wouldn't have to deal with him talking about PL at ALL.
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Date: 2004-12-09 07:31 am (UTC)Round One
GOD: Kneel! Kneel before me, son of Jor-El!
SATAN: Bite me.
Round Two
Uh-oh! Satan got loose!
GOD: Whoops. Time to justify my shoddy jailing techniques.
Round Three
MILTON [SnakeSatan's tempting Eve]: For high from ground the branches would require/Thy utmost reach or Adam's: round the tree/All other beasts that saw, with like desire/Longing and envying stood, but could not reach.
MARGIN: Not even the giraffes?
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Date: 2004-12-09 07:32 am (UTC)We loves our science. "If you cant say it with words, diagram it. Someone will get it"
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Date: 2004-12-09 07:36 am (UTC)Brevity is always best, IMHO. And better for my sanity.
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Date: 2004-12-09 07:44 am (UTC)1. Playing with the font and the margins (totally cheating, I know)
2. Going back and adding a sentence to every paragraph I'd already written that restated everything else I'd said in that paragraph, with a slight change or two. That was usually good for at least another page or two.
And sometimes I handed in a two-page-short paper with a post-it saying "I ran out of things to say. Sorry." Okay, I only did that once.
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Date: 2004-12-09 07:54 am (UTC)Of course unlike undergrad days, when you might have to write a substantial paper once a semester, in grad school it was usually every week.... for every class. On the other hand, it's much easier to write 20 pages on a subject you actually care about that it it to squeeze out 5 pages on some incredibly trivial subject you needed to fulfill a group requirement.
Which takes me back to my very last undergrad semester and a course entitled "The Films of Jean Renoir"...
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Date: 2004-12-09 07:57 am (UTC)Anywhere, here are my shortcuts: change the line spacing to 2.2. It's barely perceptible to the naked eye but adds a lot of length. Also, scoot your margins in to 1.1 or 1.2. Again, barely perceptible. There are also font options, although most professors have caught on to them. "Courier New" will give you a crapload more in length, but it looks pretty bad.
Can you tell I've had a lot of experience in this? I haven't had to use these skills in a couple months, but I need to keep them sharp for when I head to grad school next year.
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Date: 2004-12-09 07:57 am (UTC)Promised PotO icons...
Date: 2004-12-09 08:00 am (UTC)On a side note, have you heard any of the new soundtrack? Christine sounds all right, but the Phantom... doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
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