Showing posts with label Revision. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Revision. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Where do I live again?

So all I do is go back and forth from home and the hospital. And if I had a laptop I would probably never leave the hospital.
I have my conference on Friday and I hope that I hear some good news. I think my paper is doing okay but I have no idea what to do about presentation. I cant think of anything to add into my paper that would make it sound better or be absorbed better. I found one intersting quote that I stuck in for aesthetics(?) but otherwise nothing. I was thinking of making it into a magazine because what I am writing about is something that reminds me of those articles you see in TIME magazine so I am thinkin I might do that. Format it like a TIME magazine too, with all the pictures and little block quotes in random spots so you are never truly forced to read the whole article to understand what is going on. The lazy way to gather intelligence. I love it.
Anyways, I want school to be over just like every other person on this blog. I cant wait for one less stressor. Stay positive. Just stay positive.

Saturday, April 24, 2010

I think it is.

I am pretty happy with my paper. I think I need to revamp the intro because it is a little blah and there are a few more 'connections' that need to be made, but otherwise I think it is pretty much complete. The only issue I really have left to worry about is the whole presentation thing. I think I want to get some good quotes to stick in there but I don't know how I should make it look or how I should enhance it. Do I need to make specific word choices? I don't know. But what I do know is that my keyboard is acting strange and is skipping letters when I type. Oy..
We are heading back to the hospital in a few minutes but I just wanted to make sure I remembered to blog because I dont have a computer once I leave home. It is so hard having him there, but we can board there which is really wonderful and gives me comfort. I just want to have him home with us.
Everything else seems so trivial now, but I know I just have to push through the semester because now matter how I feel I still KNOW how important school is.
I love being a mommy...
and now, back to working on english. Woo.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

My Paper

Everything seems to be going better with my paper. These example essays are helping, but I always seem to forget something about one of the course goals. I finally got my paper back and I already know of some other sources that can give me a better idea of what I am trying to accomplish, so the length really isn't a concern because I have 11 pages right now and haven't even made corrections or input anything new. I am having problems with getting exactly what I am thinking about into the right words. I always find the words that sound similar to what I want to say, but it never is exactly what is in my head and that kind of frustrates me.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Revision

So far everything is going good and I found some new info that can help me with this "critical inquiry" thing. My subject is a pretty popular subject for many sports writers and fans to write, blog, and talk about so I have been having trouble really finding a alternative point of view or creating new insight because every time I use the sources, I feel as if I had come up with an alternate view that no one had thought of. Then, I check Ebsco Host and all the other scholarly websites to see if someone else had already created an article about my new revelations, and most of the time somebody has, so I am kind of getting frustrated about using the sources to come to a real, for the most part, unbiased alternative, but every time I use some of the sources, it feels as though I am reporting someone else's thought because my topic has been spun around in debates for over sixty years and for the most part, most of the alternative views have already been presented numerous times over.