Annoyed and Stressed
Okay, I understand I probably should've asked her sooner, but I'm beginning to get really annoyed since I already sent her TWO emails asking for permission to use non-.edu sites on my HSM paper. I really want to use them, because one has the director specfically stating that they specifically chose "not to define" Ryan Evans's character, and how no one complained or stopped them. The other goes into great detail of examples of Ryan's Queerness in the third movie, also has an interview with the spokesperson for Disney channel about Ryan Evans's character, and how the High School Musical On Tour director and playwright DID interpret Ryan Evans as gay in the play.
And it's not like they are the "dubious sources" she was worried about us using. One is Newsday, a Long Island newspaper. The other is AfterElton.com, the gay male counterpart to AfterEllen.com that deals specifically with gay and lesbian portrayals in the media! These aren't just fansites or made up sources... (I mean, the first is a NEWSPAPER website! I've never heard of a teacher turning down a newspaper website. And though the other I guess is less credible, it's not a gossip blog...)
Plus, without these sources, I'm basically just going to be saying my own opinion and interpretations of the three movies without any third parties to back it up... Which I can do for 6-8+ pages, no problem, just I don't feel it's going to be as strong a paper without proof that I'm not the only one who sees the movies this way. I mean, I have some sources on the Hays Code which I'm going to work in so I don't look like I didn't do any research (in fact, I did a ridiculous amount considering the subject...XD), but still.
And I guess I could go ahead and use the sources anyway...but I really don't want to do a paper badly for a teacher I respect and love as much as her. Which is why partially I think I'm having such a hard time writing these two papers because I don't want to dissapoint her. Even though I don't think she'd be dissaproving of the two sources, she does specifically state not to use websites that don't end in .edu (the one exception being lgbtq.com) without her permission.
Which is why it's so annoying having first emailed her (and she said she'd be checking her email a lot before the final when the paper's due) several days ago and then again yesterday afternoon. It's not like I'm not using my college email address either, so she knows it's not spam. I mention it's about sources for the paper in the subject!
If she wasn't my favorite teacher, I'd be seriously pissed. Instead I'm just annoyed and dissapointed.
And it's not like they are the "dubious sources" she was worried about us using. One is Newsday, a Long Island newspaper. The other is AfterElton.com, the gay male counterpart to AfterEllen.com that deals specifically with gay and lesbian portrayals in the media! These aren't just fansites or made up sources... (I mean, the first is a NEWSPAPER website! I've never heard of a teacher turning down a newspaper website. And though the other I guess is less credible, it's not a gossip blog...)
Plus, without these sources, I'm basically just going to be saying my own opinion and interpretations of the three movies without any third parties to back it up... Which I can do for 6-8+ pages, no problem, just I don't feel it's going to be as strong a paper without proof that I'm not the only one who sees the movies this way. I mean, I have some sources on the Hays Code which I'm going to work in so I don't look like I didn't do any research (in fact, I did a ridiculous amount considering the subject...XD), but still.
And I guess I could go ahead and use the sources anyway...but I really don't want to do a paper badly for a teacher I respect and love as much as her. Which is why partially I think I'm having such a hard time writing these two papers because I don't want to dissapoint her. Even though I don't think she'd be dissaproving of the two sources, she does specifically state not to use websites that don't end in .edu (the one exception being lgbtq.com) without her permission.
Which is why it's so annoying having first emailed her (and she said she'd be checking her email a lot before the final when the paper's due) several days ago and then again yesterday afternoon. It's not like I'm not using my college email address either, so she knows it's not spam. I mention it's about sources for the paper in the subject!
If she wasn't my favorite teacher, I'd be seriously pissed. Instead I'm just annoyed and dissapointed.