The rules governing construction are often worse than the construction itself

May 19, 2010 14:15

has anyone noticed how if you ever have to write a paper for something the references and bibliography are often more frustrating than the paper itself?
I've just hashed out 2000 words on reflective practice and while the first drafts sounds good trying to assemble the bloody references in the proper DICKENSIAN format does my head in. How books are not the same as articles when it comes to the rules, and how you can't have footnotes under this system.
This was the same as my nurse training, which ran off a completely different set of rules than Aberystwyth where I did my english degree.

Anyways, I've almost done my paper. Now I just have to assemble my portfolio. Assemble being the word cos it's currently in bits, both on hard-drives and in plastic wallets strung around the office. I'm not one for keeping everything together.
And I haven't found a suitably colourful file for them yet. I have the old nursing ones but they're in acid pink and neon orange and have song lyrics in tippex scrawled over them.
That's usual for me, I used to paint (using proper poster paint) on my lever arch files in high school. It was all Steeler Stars and things like NEVERMORE.
There's a story behind that phrase but it involves wrestling.

But I've written out lists for packing on this trip. I hope it works out is all I can say. I really hope I don't forget anything, including an iPod charger. I'm not going to listen to the iPod in the desert but I will need it in Terminal 5 otherwise I might have an episode.

writing, college, lists, holiday

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