Torturous
For anthropological theory, my obtuse and enigmatic mustachioed professor has required our final paper be written on a particular human rights issue. Human rights (especially the violation of it) is interesting from an anthropological perspective, seeing as we're trained to be culturally relative & the rights of one person over another in a particular society can be an amorphous ball of shit. I chose torture.
I also chose to work with a partner, my friend and classmate (I'll call her "Flo"), as I'm profoundly lazy and I wanted to cut my writing down to 1/2. The paper is due Monday and the rough draft of her portion is bad. Not informationally bad, but writing bad. Like, so bad as to be an example of every way one might fuck up putting words together to make tangible thoughts. I'm painstaking when I write papers and have learned from my superiors and "intellectual grandparents" (which is embarrassingly how prior anthropologists are referred to in the dept) that good science must be good writing. Flo is hellbent on being very writer-inclusive, i.e. inserting herself into the paper with lots of phrases like, "I will discuss here in this portion. . ."
It's making me apoplectic.
She has, however, given me carte blanche to edit as I see fit. She says my vocab is better than hers and trusts me to make it work. I don't wanna hurt her feelings but I've been excising entire chunks. She's kinda sensitive. I bet she's gonna ask me if we're still friends.
I also chose to work with a partner, my friend and classmate (I'll call her "Flo"), as I'm profoundly lazy and I wanted to cut my writing down to 1/2. The paper is due Monday and the rough draft of her portion is bad. Not informationally bad, but writing bad. Like, so bad as to be an example of every way one might fuck up putting words together to make tangible thoughts. I'm painstaking when I write papers and have learned from my superiors and "intellectual grandparents" (which is embarrassingly how prior anthropologists are referred to in the dept) that good science must be good writing. Flo is hellbent on being very writer-inclusive, i.e. inserting herself into the paper with lots of phrases like, "I will discuss here in this portion. . ."
It's making me apoplectic.
She has, however, given me carte blanche to edit as I see fit. She says my vocab is better than hers and trusts me to make it work. I don't wanna hurt her feelings but I've been excising entire chunks. She's kinda sensitive. I bet she's gonna ask me if we're still friends.