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Hehe. I had an annotated bibliography assignment due for English that I didn't actually do (or rather, only did a third of). So at lunch, I was madly scrabbling to read two 20-page sources, summarise them in 200 words and make up some crap about how they relate to my essay thesis (100 words -- 600 words total for two sources). I distinctly remember madly typing whatever came into my head, not stopping to proofread anything, interspersing randomly with uncited quotes, glancing briefly at the word counts to tell me how many sentences to arbitrarily hightlight and delete, and grabbing the pages off the printer just in time to madly dash to class seconds before it began.
Today we got them back. After class, she asked me to e-mail her the electronic version so she could use it as a sample of a good bibliography to use for future classes. XDDD I got an A; it would have been an A+ if I hadn't lost a third of a grade for not putting page numbers in my random quotations.
I've still got it. Gooo procrastination!
I totally want to send her the following email (but won't):
Dear Mrs. Jordan:
Attached is my annotated bibliography, in .doc and .pdf format, as you requested. Hoping you won't take any marks off after the fact, I am sending it unaltered, even though it's clear you were drunk or asleep when you first read it; there are several large errors you've missed entirely, such as the fact every page's header contains the first page information, the margins are incorrect, and some of my sentences cease to make sense entirely halfway through. For example, if you actually read the sentence below, you will clearly see that it makes absolutely no sense and in fact is simply the head of one sentence stuck onto the tail of another:
He says the play inherits attributes from Ibsen's earlier works, it does not provide the characters with enough biographical detail to flesh them out in the spectator's eyes.
I am also terrified that you will actually look at the word counts, which exceed the maximum by approximately 20% due to the fact that I pulled the entire assignment out of my ass in the space of 50 minutes and couldn't stop to think about whether what I was typing was actually useful and\or relevant.
I hope your future courses benefit from this example!
Yours,
Alexander.
Today we got them back. After class, she asked me to e-mail her the electronic version so she could use it as a sample of a good bibliography to use for future classes. XDDD I got an A; it would have been an A+ if I hadn't lost a third of a grade for not putting page numbers in my random quotations.
I've still got it. Gooo procrastination!
I totally want to send her the following email (but won't):
Dear Mrs. Jordan:
Attached is my annotated bibliography, in .doc and .pdf format, as you requested. Hoping you won't take any marks off after the fact, I am sending it unaltered, even though it's clear you were drunk or asleep when you first read it; there are several large errors you've missed entirely, such as the fact every page's header contains the first page information, the margins are incorrect, and some of my sentences cease to make sense entirely halfway through. For example, if you actually read the sentence below, you will clearly see that it makes absolutely no sense and in fact is simply the head of one sentence stuck onto the tail of another:
He says the play inherits attributes from Ibsen's earlier works, it does not provide the characters with enough biographical detail to flesh them out in the spectator's eyes.
I am also terrified that you will actually look at the word counts, which exceed the maximum by approximately 20% due to the fact that I pulled the entire assignment out of my ass in the space of 50 minutes and couldn't stop to think about whether what I was typing was actually useful and\or relevant.
I hope your future courses benefit from this example!
Yours,
Alexander.