Introducing: Topic number six!
Have I mentioned my dislike for this class/assignment/poet? No?
Okay. The assignment is as follows:
Now I mean, original ideas are great, but inspiration is better. A little backup goes a long way with papers. I tell all my freshfolk to use sources in an attempt to support what they write, but here I am forbidden to take my own advice. Even folks who write scholarly articles read up on all the prior scholarly dialogue so they don't look stupid. We're being set up here.
And yeah. The topic changed again. At this rate, I'll never get to the two page mark.
End.
Okay. The assignment is as follows:
- No sources allowed, except the poet himself.
- 10 pages.
- No outside sources.
- "Tell me what you think about the poet.
- Sources = bad.
- How does his poetry fit into his system of thought?
- Oh, and don't actually look for information anywhere. You have to pull it all out of your ass.
Now I mean, original ideas are great, but inspiration is better. A little backup goes a long way with papers. I tell all my freshfolk to use sources in an attempt to support what they write, but here I am forbidden to take my own advice. Even folks who write scholarly articles read up on all the prior scholarly dialogue so they don't look stupid. We're being set up here.
And yeah. The topic changed again. At this rate, I'll never get to the two page mark.
End.
posted by Rehkmira @ 22:57
1 Comments:
At Monday, April 25, 2005 3:52:00 AM,
Alina said…
I think it's better like that than being turned into a Xerox! I remember our frustration back in highschool about this. We had to write this enormous comments on a single poem and the more sources we had the better. So we ended up combining what other people said (we were so good at it that it actually sounded great!) but couldn't really express our own opinions on the subject and were completely incapable of doing a relevant analysis, we were just very good at being eclectic! Thank God English and Latin teachers tought us better!
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