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Ignore the sardonic lyrics - I play this every year when my results are in.

Transactional Writing - 70% (pleased with this one, might have been let down slightly by the travel piece).

What is Theory? - 70% (now that pleasantly surprises me; I presume I did better on the Jane Eyre rewrite and I must've aced Brave New World).

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Rough draft: Speech = 60%; Sense of Place A Passage to India (3,000 word - almost mini dissertation) = 63% !!! At rough draft!!! Woooo Hoooo!! Downside - yeah, I can't WAIT to turn those suckers around o_O. In anycase, the major headache is out of the way, three left - then it's pedal to the metal and do the resubmission ( Read more... )

Commentary on essay - word Count 554 - I have to follow a framework for analysis, which includes: an overview; the structure (layout, narrative, paragraph structure etc.); grammar, lexical sets and phonology. I am about 2/3rds done, but only have a limited amount of words left.  Thankfully, I don't have to state too much of the obvious - how ever ( Read more... )

'Tis done - all 906 words of it, not without a bit of juggling and a bit of editing (paring back on some and expanding on others).  It is now as good as it is going to get sans academic eyes giving it the once over.  I have to pull another 700 words out of the air to say why and how I did it.  Good question - because some urban art can be ( Read more... )

We had to stage a debate this morning - All literature should have a political basis. Interesting. I had to be on the opposing team and trying to prove that there shouldn't be politics in all literature - however, most of the Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels have some kind of feudal system and any trashy novel has some form of sexual politics, so more ( Read more... )

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Have got 69% in my children's book/commentary!  Am over the moon - just a nip/tuck and the mark will be way in the 70s. Another first.  Before I congratulate myself too much, I said that I will illustrate this (not an uncommon thing to do - those before me have given it a go, even the ones who couldn't draw).  I will have to do this in my spare ( Read more... )