When I think of this paper one thing comes to mind, and it goes a lil something likt this:
Dear research paper, I hate your stinking guts! You make me vomit. You are the skum between my toes!
Love Valerie!
PS. thank you alfalfa and the little rascals for such great words. you are truely wise beyond your years.
For this weeks blog we were required to write about the upcoming essay, well the one that is due soon. The first draft is due in a couple days and the final draft is due the week after that. We are being asked to write about how the essay is coming along. And we are asked to discuss what we have done, what needs to be done, how we can improve it and many other things. In other words we are being asked to vent about this headache of a paper. The first question I will be dealing with is how is the paper coming along? This is an interesting question in itself, I mean it is just a little hard to answer. The paper is coming along slowly but surely it is, but it is so hard. Writing essays is most definitely my weakness mainly because I do not like them. I wait for the last minute to begin, normally, and it is safe to say that I have been working on it but not very well. This weekend I will need to do a whole lot of work in order to do a good job then I will need to follow it up with another week of perfecting it before it is due next sunday. This is going to be a challenge and I am up for it. What do you need to do to complete it? The main thing I need to do to complete it is figure out where I am planning on going with my paper. I have decided to go with the women's rights issues in Iran. So I just have to decide how to put it all together. I have almost all of my paragraphs done I just need to figure out where to put them and how to connect them together. So order or organization and putting it all together. How do you plan to accomplish this? I plan on taking this weekend to concluded my first draft. Then I will be using next week to finish it up in its entirety. This will hopefully not take me too long to do. What areas of difficulty are you encountering? The biggest area I find difficult is the fact that I just do not know where to start my argument and what to or not to use. It is just so nerve racking trying to do this essay. The idea of writing this long huge essay is scary and I do not know how I will do. The biggest thing I do is worry about what I write and it not being good enough so I hold back. Or if I do not hold back I just write nonsense because I know I am going to fail anyways. How might you overcome these obstacles? I think I have a chance at overcoming the doubting by just doing the essay however it fits. And I figure that I am doing pretty well in the class so if I were to fail then I would hopefully still be okay. I mean some points are better than no points at all. At least there will be things going toward my grade no matter how few they may be.
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Val!!! this paper is truely scaryyyy, I had a nightmare last night, that I didn't upload it on time, and I freaked out and I didn'get a grade for it :/ scary stuff, but girl I need to really get on this paper, because I don't think Im doing all that great, so I need this paper to pass, and I;m stressing out because i don't know what to write, but ahhhh Imma do it!! FYI: i liked the intro to your blog hahaaa, that was cute. But it seems to me like you pretty mucha have everything set to write this paper, so your not all that behind like i am ;/ Hopefully i'll get this ridiculously paper done by today, if not by tomorrow night, which is probably what's going to happen, because i have a soocer game later on tonight in la canada, and it's starts at 7PM so yaaaa freak my life lol. But with all my heart, I hope you do very well, and good luck!!
ReplyDeleteOMG Valerie!! I seriously just laughed so hard at your opening statement for you blog! My dog even walked in my room to see what was going on, she looked around and then walked out realizing there was no one here! I love the Little Rascals and before I could even finish reading your opening line I caught myself saying “Oh Spanky”! I am so glad you opened up with something funny towards this research paper. It seems like everyone hates this paper just as much as you and I are. It seems like we are all procrastinating starting it and all wish it was just over with already! It is a good thing to look forward to knowing that there are only two weeks of school left, which is always something good to look forward to. I completely agree with you that writing essays are the hardest to do since we both hate them SOOOOO much. It is funny how we all seem to procrastinate the things that we hate doing the most instead of just pushing through them and getting it over with. I feel your pain on how hard your topic is. Before I decided what I was going to write about I decided to research each topic and see which seemed like it had the most information and would be easy to write and argumentative essay on. I had a hard time finding things on women’s rights so I skipped that one. LOL. Great job on your blog and I am sure everything will come together on time!
ReplyDelete“Dear research paper, I hate your stinking guts! You make me vomit. You are the skum between my toes!” Interesting comment. So how do you REALLY feel about writing research papers, Valerie?
ReplyDeleteOn a more serious note, you made a statement that immediately caught my attention because it used to be my Achilles Heel of writing too. You wrote: “The biggest thing I do is worry about what I write and it not being good enough so I hold back.” That “self-deprecation” seems to be a common problem among many writers, and often leads to indecisive phrasing or a less than complete expression of what one was intending to say. It is essentially blocks the creative flow and make the whole task of writing much more painful. This is especially true, it seems, for longer research papers where great ideas quickly spill out, and then get abruptly halted due to self-doubt about our abilities.
The only way I was able to overcome that was to deliberately stop myself from self-editing while in the midst of writing. I just let everything out in one continuous thought while the idea is still fresh. In the past, I would stop writing to ponder if a statement or phrase or concept “sounds correct” or not. Rather than helping to make the argument stronger, it only made broke the flow and made my confidence in what I had already written shakier.
So just write without hesitation – without interruption – during your first pass or draft. You can always come back later to proofread and scrutinize what you wrote. You might find it much easier to finish the assignment because when you come back to proofread you have already put words on paper. Editing, revision and clarity come much more effortlessly AFTER you have already written something – even if that early draft is unrefined.