i am horrible at starting papers

[Sapphire]

Good job Neopyrn, you just gave me some confidence. The problem with my paper is that it's going to have to be quote and footnote heavy, but that just takes mule labour of going through and plopping that shit in through an already written paper.

I just popped off 219 words in the past 15 minutes. I got on a roll. It is incomplete, as quotes and footnotes haven't been entered yet. With those in there, it'll probably come out to 300 words. Here it is:

A subtle albeit powerful sign of change during the industrial revolution were the ways in which time was categorized and measured in the workplace. Prior to the revolution when agriculture was the backbone of the economy, the individual still had some power over how he was going to plan his workday. He could fit five days of work into a seven day schedule any way he pleased, so long that the work was completed after the seven days. In a factory however, time was measured down to the minute, where the worker had to be at his post at all times. Even worse, the individual worker was not supposed to work at the speed which best suited his talents, rather than the speed at which the machine was set. It was a double-edged sword with the machine rather than the individual being in control of the tempo and the environment, as there was now no set amount of work to be done. The work had no finite quantity of material the individual had to create; instead the work kept coming as the machines were running. This destroyed the notion of there being a set amount of time needed to accomplish a task and thereby allowed the employers to order workers to stay at the machines for extremely long hours.

It's a first draft, I know, but I guess you can see what I said about being loquacious.

Originally posted by xtina


But this is so much more fun to write.

I'm not denying it. I agree fully. There's no greater way to ridicule an assignment (any assignment) than by taking a pro-Hitler angle on things, and doing it well. But to do so would require me to go through the material and pick out the knats off of a monkeys back. It would take time and careful grooming. It could certainly be done, but if it were to be done well, it would have to been started a week ago. This way, all I need is a bunch of hair. So I can rip it off the monkeys back in abundance. This shit writes itself. I've been taking history courses my whole high school career and industrialization is not a foreign subject to me. This way, I can honestly just write what I know, and then go back through the document I read, pick some choice quotes, stick 'em in there, and get my B+ to C-.

[Nimrod's Son]

another good beginning is "Webster's dictionary defines (topic) as (definition)."

[alexthestampede]

that reminds me i have a huge outline due tomorrow

[Eulogy]

I have to write 8-10 pages on how the text of Titus Andronicus proves that the violence in it is significant, and then give examples of 16th-century violence that parallel some of the events of the play. Then I have to talk about how various elements of Julie Taymor's film version stress the fact that the significant level of violence is a timeless theme and that different generations will all be affected by it in similar ways because.....something about violent events going on around everyone all the time. or something.

bahhh

I didn't start out wanting to write about that. I have no idea how it evolved into that. It doesn't even make much sense.

[Sapphire]

Originally posted by alexthestampede
that reminds me i have a huge outline due tomorrow

Outlines are easy. You don't even have to stick to them in your main essay/project. You can just say that you weighed various options and elements of the assignment when making the decision and that B looked better than A.

In my proposal once (for journalism) I had to say who I was going to interview. Of course, I had forgotten that it was due that day. I pulled together three absolute bullshit things right out of the air.

One was Isle.
Another was a friend who owned a guitar (re: Isle 2).
The last was a museum curator whose name I didn't know that lived at the end of the hall.

The teacher may have ripped my proposal apart in front of the whole class with her "This is how you don't do things" lecture, but Goddamnit, I received that completion mark!

Name: ???
Occupation: Museum Curator
Plan to get an interview: Knock on his door kindly.

[noir cat]

I couldn't fucking read this thread up until now because I had a few papers to do. Now I"m done with them, except I have another one coming up and it makes me want to kill myself.

I keep getting B's this semester, I don't understand why I'm such a failure.

Originally posted by alexthestampede
The night was hot, wait no, the night, the night was humid. The night was humid, no wait, hot, hot. The night was hot. The night was hot and wet, wet and hot. The night was wet and hot, hot and wet, wet and hot; that's humid. The night was humid.

That was just great.

[Oranjes]

I have a LOT of trouble reading and writing.. I'd say my English stills are 8-9th grade level~