I know I am beginning to stress when I start to forget things like submitting a blog response. That being said, of course I am starting to freak out about the bibliographic essay. This freak out response was initiated by the enormity of the bibliographic essay, but my distress is only compounded as I realize that the semester is drawing much too quickly to a close. As much as I am looking forward to this semester being over, I can’t help but to feel enormous pressure as finals week draws near. Even though I will have several final exams to deal with before this semester can officially end, the good thing is that this bibliographic essay will be completed and submitted before any of my finals take place!
The most difficult thing about this essay is that we cannot argue a side of the issues we are examining. By now the first thing I look for when reading an article is it’s argumentative value, and then I decide how I stand on the issue. This form of evaluating an article cannot help me with this essay since this is not what the assignment is about. Another thing that makes this assignment a pain is that I am having some difficulty finding relevant sources. The second part to this problem is that when I do find a good source I realize that it is about 50 to 60 pages in length. This isn’t so bad as long as when I’m finished reading the 50 to 60 pages I have a lot of good information to use. When I have spent an hour looking for a source and then spend an additional hour deciphering the information, I want results.
The good thing is that I already have about six or seven really good sources. Even though it has taken me hours of searching to accumulate those sources, I am smarter about how I go about locating sources now. This hopefully means that the final three or four sources I will need will be a piece of cake to find. One positive aspect to this assignment is that we were able to choose our writing center topic. This makes the assignment much more bearable because I chose a topic that I really wanted to know more about, but if this hadn’t been an assignment I wouldn’t have had time to research it.
I have set a goal to have the bulk of my essay written by the end of this week. If all goes according to plan I shouldn’t have to worry about this assignment over Thanksgiving Break! How great would it be to have four days to relax before dead week and finals week? I can’t imagine I have never had that luxury before. I don’t know how probable this is, but like I said this is my goal. Now that I think about it, maybe this is more of a very wishful dream. It is comforting to know that all of you are experiencing the same stresses and difficulties. We will manage as long as we keep reminding ourselves that in 14 short days this essay will be behind us.
The most difficult thing about this essay is that we cannot argue a side of the issues we are examining. By now the first thing I look for when reading an article is it’s argumentative value, and then I decide how I stand on the issue. This form of evaluating an article cannot help me with this essay since this is not what the assignment is about. Another thing that makes this assignment a pain is that I am having some difficulty finding relevant sources. The second part to this problem is that when I do find a good source I realize that it is about 50 to 60 pages in length. This isn’t so bad as long as when I’m finished reading the 50 to 60 pages I have a lot of good information to use. When I have spent an hour looking for a source and then spend an additional hour deciphering the information, I want results.
The good thing is that I already have about six or seven really good sources. Even though it has taken me hours of searching to accumulate those sources, I am smarter about how I go about locating sources now. This hopefully means that the final three or four sources I will need will be a piece of cake to find. One positive aspect to this assignment is that we were able to choose our writing center topic. This makes the assignment much more bearable because I chose a topic that I really wanted to know more about, but if this hadn’t been an assignment I wouldn’t have had time to research it.
I have set a goal to have the bulk of my essay written by the end of this week. If all goes according to plan I shouldn’t have to worry about this assignment over Thanksgiving Break! How great would it be to have four days to relax before dead week and finals week? I can’t imagine I have never had that luxury before. I don’t know how probable this is, but like I said this is my goal. Now that I think about it, maybe this is more of a very wishful dream. It is comforting to know that all of you are experiencing the same stresses and difficulties. We will manage as long as we keep reminding ourselves that in 14 short days this essay will be behind us.
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