*races across the finish line*
Nov. 30th, 2008 08:01 pmThe paper is done! DONE, I SAY! Well, it still needs about four to six hours of revision, but I need a few days away from it before I can do that, so that's for later this week.
It weighs in at a few lines less than twenty-one pages. My works cited page is in fact two pages, including seventeen works cited and three more works consulted, because one cannot write a paper on the Henriad without in some way acknowledging Greenblatt's "Invisible Bullets," one just can't.
ETA: I just realized how much this reads like a birth announcement. Hmm.
It weighs in at a few lines less than twenty-one pages. My works cited page is in fact two pages, including seventeen works cited and three more works consulted, because one cannot write a paper on the Henriad without in some way acknowledging Greenblatt's "Invisible Bullets," one just can't.
ETA: I just realized how much this reads like a birth announcement. Hmm.
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Date: 2008-12-02 04:12 am (UTC)But: ahhh, footnotes. How I've missed you.
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Date: 2008-12-02 03:34 pm (UTC)This is my secret fear. And it's why I give myself time to edit.
But: ahhh, footnotes. How I've missed you.
It's weird to be in a position to actually use them when writing an MLA-style paper. I've finally hit the point in my academic career where I can have things like, "[xyz] [page numbers] has an interesting discussion of [something related to what I'm discussing but which I don't want to quote]," or "For a critical overview of [whatever issue I'm touching on], see [XYZ]."
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Date: 2008-12-03 09:25 pm (UTC)It's nice, isn't it? (I'm hitting a new low by footnoting critical discussions of Whitman in a music paper.)
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Date: 2008-12-03 11:56 pm (UTC)Personally, I would call that a high.
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Date: 2008-12-04 03:21 pm (UTC)