University work update
May. 19th, 2005 04:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annwfynOK...
I am now not allowed to make any more notes on either East Anglia or Northumbria. I'm over the 5000 word mark and need to edit.
My goal is to get a first draft finished by tomorrow, and then start editing my essay on burial data essay.
I'm now at the end of Week 4. I have until the end of Week 6 to get both these essays handed in. I then have one exam to sit, and then I'm done for the year, and can head off to Australia. It's scary how quickly all this has gone.
On the plus side I realised today that I can write essays again. You see, I used to be very good at writing essays. I got told this by tutors. I wrote many long complicated sentences and used words that few understood. I left university and went to work forcairmen at Strange Company, and then continued elsewhere in other jobs which wanted me to write in a style which was concise, clear, accessible.
Therefore, when I started my Masters I was rather scared to discover that my essay writing skills had suffered. Simple words, short sentences - all of the above had become a habit that I needed to break.
It appears that I have remembered how to do it. Sentences such as 'it is hard to ascribe any level of uniformity to social change and cultural development' can now come as standard. It may be pathetic that this makes me happy, but it does.
I can be a Clever Sally (tm).
*does her hopeful dance*
I am now not allowed to make any more notes on either East Anglia or Northumbria. I'm over the 5000 word mark and need to edit.
My goal is to get a first draft finished by tomorrow, and then start editing my essay on burial data essay.
I'm now at the end of Week 4. I have until the end of Week 6 to get both these essays handed in. I then have one exam to sit, and then I'm done for the year, and can head off to Australia. It's scary how quickly all this has gone.
On the plus side I realised today that I can write essays again. You see, I used to be very good at writing essays. I got told this by tutors. I wrote many long complicated sentences and used words that few understood. I left university and went to work for
cairmen at Strange Company, and then continued elsewhere in other jobs which wanted me to write in a style which was concise, clear, accessible.Therefore, when I started my Masters I was rather scared to discover that my essay writing skills had suffered. Simple words, short sentences - all of the above had become a habit that I needed to break.
It appears that I have remembered how to do it. Sentences such as 'it is hard to ascribe any level of uniformity to social change and cultural development' can now come as standard. It may be pathetic that this makes me happy, but it does.
I can be a Clever Sally (tm).
*does her hopeful dance*
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Date: 2005-05-19 05:33 pm (UTC)Congratulations on getting your groove back!
But if it's any comfort, I've always thought of you as wordy, baroque, confusing, intellectually pretentious and overly complicated all along. I'm just glad that you and your tutors can see this inner beauty of yours too. :)
Oh, and I haven't read your spoilers on Revenge of the Sith yet. I don't want to know how Darth Vader kills Anakin.
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Date: 2005-05-20 11:41 am (UTC)