I am trying to write an Abstract (or to you and I, a summary of the contents of an essay/book etc.) and trying to find a way through it.  It is 10% of my overall mark and I am just over half way (203/400 words) covering the barest bones of it.  The reading list that I have to make notes on/study is impressively long, hence the reason for geting the ( Read more... )

ITS IS ALL DONE ....
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!

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I have not had word  back from my lecturer, so I am posting on various forums and checking with classmates the status quo with the word count.  Right now, I think I am going to have to bunce up certain pieces of work - basically if they want 6 pieces of work with the minimum 2,000 for the entire writing portfolio, excluding reflective commentary, ( Read more... )

The next three days are portfolio days.  Even though I have done the bulk of the work, I do not feel the least inclined to do anything.  I suppose it is because I am on the last leg of it, I can smell the fresh air of freedom and I resent being stuck in the bloody box of an office, sacrificing my sanity at the high alter of education.  Well, that's ( Read more... )

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Last essay.  Lots of scrawl through it.  I am sticking to adjustments this time, rather than total rewrites.  Haven't got the time and if the moderating board want more concise work, they will have to whistle Dixie, even to my own detriment. This is the political IN3, I have possibly made the mistake of going all 'modern day' but I believe that ( Read more... )

I am trying to add some added comparisons to this TH2 Monster. I have used Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Yellow Wallpaper and Henrik Ibsen - A Doll's House, but only in passing as I have just Too Much To Right About, Not Enough Space and I have to Pare Back As It is.  Right now, I can truly identify with Perkin Gilman's character going slowly ( Read more... )

Currently trying to understand my essay planner from yesterday. I am glad to say I am not the only one floundering with only days to go.  I am reliably informed that a second year (who so kindly helped me yesterday when it came to sorting out my essay) had to do this mid mini dissertation just recently and 5,000 words is a lot to turn round.  I ( Read more... )

Bank Holiday Monday and it has been lashing down all day.  My car has not moved all week, because the hoses have split again and I cannot see the mechanic til Thursday.  This always seems to happen when I have a particularly shitty piece of work to do.  Right now it is just as well that I don't have transport, because I would make a bolt for the ( Read more... )

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I have managed to slot the 'Pleasure Principle' in (pun fully intended) and now I am trying to read up some Marxist Theory (OWL Purdue has come into its own - but I am reading Rivkin and Ryan at the moment).  I am a bit worried about the time frame; after this, I have four essays to turn round, one of them being TH2 (Jane Eyre/Feminist Theory), ( Read more... )