Wednesday, December 10, 2008
I.C. 8
Doesn't 8 seem like a high number? It does to me. It seems as though these blogs could be revised a bit. I understand their purpose, but the truth is that I work in spurts, brief flashes of inspiration that result in pages of information accompanied by a sense of not wanting to look at the paper again for days. This is what is currently happening, one of the long spells between the likely two bursts of productivity that will become this paper. And I submit to you, dear readers, that perhaps the system of commenting every day on a paper in which it is doubtful that work is achieved every day is a bit ludicrous. I suggest an alteration in which a certain number of blogs are to be done on the paper over the two weeks, but when the writer decides to post them is up to him or her. Perhaps, two a week should be enforced, to encourage the writer to start work the first week. The bottom line is, the current over-the-top system should be thoroughly examined and perhaps modified. On the paper specifically I did little, although I did read the editorial the Terman Oscillation by the esteemed Ann Cutler and enquired as to more bibliographic information on that article.
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I agree with you J.P. and I also feel the same way with the bursts of working, and the spans in the middle. Some nights I just may not have anything decent to add to the paper, so what is the point of creating a blog? While on other nights I might type out three pages, leaving nothing for the next night.
I agree! I also have trouble blogging every night when I don't always get a chance to do all that much work on this everynight. You can always work on the works cited though! That doesn't require any creativity! It's just a pain to do.
JP! I understand your complaint with the number of blogs, as you can probably see from my last post i too found them hard. I would also like to agree with your comment calling Ann Cutler is esteemed. She is truly a remarkable woman, very much worthy of a research paper. In fact, sometimes i wonder if one of our subjects should have been debating if she should or should not be named queen of the united states (no sarcasm). I think, however, that these blogs were easier then other blogs and htat justified them because they did nto have to be filled with content (read matt's for example) and they could still fulfill the needs of the class.
Happy hollidays dear sir!
This post is like, the story of my life. Dealing with school plus after school activities plus those things called...finals...sometimes leave me no choice but to put off this project. So it kind of sucks when every night I have to say something. I find myself telling stories...and I'm pretty sure thats not the point of these blogs.
so, agreed.
well done.
Carry on.
I totally agree with you JP. You are, if not the smartest man in the world, the smartest man on the internet. Every-day blogs is a little over the top, but I think I've become a bit of a fan of blogs/journaling. It's been helping me to get some of my day down on paper - it helps organize things. After all, "A story, we sense, is the only possible habitation for the burden of our witnessing."
JP you have brought forth a vaild point and I believe you have presented your opinion in a fairly perswasive manner. I agree that when writing it happens in various spurts so the obligation to blog about ones progess daily is a bit much.
JP-
I completely agree. As a horrendous procrastinator, the idea of daily blogging on a paper I will not work on the entire first week (at least) is a bit ridiculous. It did, however, compel me to actually due some research before I was right about to write the paper. I, too, write in spurts and then never look at the paper until I have to revise it.
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