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beccaelizabethUrgh. Essays are bastards.
I've read and underlined the passages from Beloved. I think I'm going to pick the one I don't have a handout essay about, because I don't seem to have many of my own thoughts about the other ones, once I've read a nice tidy handout. Is a bit unhelpful.
I read another chapter from the English Studies book. About Ecology again. I think it has some useful tools I could apply to Beloved. Well, most of these tools, you apply them to anything you get useful theory-shaped answers. But I mean I'd quite like to get stuck in to that kind of thing.
Only I don't think it would be so very useful in the 'getting good marks' way.
... Sometimes I wonder why I *want* to get good marks. I mean, at Access level it was so I could get to the UEA, but that turned out to be impossible for utterly unrelated reasons. Now I'm going to spend at least six years on this course. After that? Haven't a clue. Do I need to get good marks if all I'm ever going to use this for is writing my own stuff?
Maybe I need to look up requirements for keeping on studying, just for motivational purposes. Would have to go to UEA for anything after a BA, and I don't reckon they'd let me if I just scrape by barely passing.
The advice booklet tells you how to improve from a 2.2 to a 2.1
Which is vaguely depressing. Isn't there like a higher mark than that? Do they just not expect us to go there?
I sulk.
Actually, I think I'm reading a bit much lately. I'm getting that too full feeling where I start sulking about the basic concept of studying this stuff. At the same time I'm still enthusiastic about the knowing of this, but... Maybe need a break.
Or I could just switch to Great Expectations, or do some reading for the Ibsen and Top Girls bits in Drama tomorrow.
How do people manage studying more than one unit at once? I mean, I know the answer is time management, I just still don't see how. I'm having enough trouble switching between novels and drama.
I'd still much rather just keep on reading stuff and not have to spend all this time on the essay parts. Still have half a shelf of books to read, have better things to do with the time!
Skimmed the intro/conclusion of yet another book last night while watching Ghost Whisperer (commercial breaks, actually can get a chapter done in them). Seems to be saying that even the theories that don't think they're political are in fact political, being shaped by the times and circumstances which thought them up and continue to make them. To which I think 'duh'. Because to me this is obvious.
The more I read the more obvious it is to me which bits of my studies thus far I've actually absorbed. Lots of isms, stuf about structures, stuff about readers and the death of the author. Putting it all into any sort of coherent whole may take a while...
I could also read the study skills book on time management and essay writing and research. It will have tables to fill in. I can use pretty colors.
I've been writing in silver all morning because it's the easiest to write over the top of when I get more thoughts.
Does anyone know what happen when you photocopy something covered in metallic silver notes? Do they show up grey or, like, extra white?
I've read and underlined the passages from Beloved. I think I'm going to pick the one I don't have a handout essay about, because I don't seem to have many of my own thoughts about the other ones, once I've read a nice tidy handout. Is a bit unhelpful.
I read another chapter from the English Studies book. About Ecology again. I think it has some useful tools I could apply to Beloved. Well, most of these tools, you apply them to anything you get useful theory-shaped answers. But I mean I'd quite like to get stuck in to that kind of thing.
Only I don't think it would be so very useful in the 'getting good marks' way.
... Sometimes I wonder why I *want* to get good marks. I mean, at Access level it was so I could get to the UEA, but that turned out to be impossible for utterly unrelated reasons. Now I'm going to spend at least six years on this course. After that? Haven't a clue. Do I need to get good marks if all I'm ever going to use this for is writing my own stuff?
Maybe I need to look up requirements for keeping on studying, just for motivational purposes. Would have to go to UEA for anything after a BA, and I don't reckon they'd let me if I just scrape by barely passing.
The advice booklet tells you how to improve from a 2.2 to a 2.1
Which is vaguely depressing. Isn't there like a higher mark than that? Do they just not expect us to go there?
I sulk.
Actually, I think I'm reading a bit much lately. I'm getting that too full feeling where I start sulking about the basic concept of studying this stuff. At the same time I'm still enthusiastic about the knowing of this, but... Maybe need a break.
Or I could just switch to Great Expectations, or do some reading for the Ibsen and Top Girls bits in Drama tomorrow.
How do people manage studying more than one unit at once? I mean, I know the answer is time management, I just still don't see how. I'm having enough trouble switching between novels and drama.
I'd still much rather just keep on reading stuff and not have to spend all this time on the essay parts. Still have half a shelf of books to read, have better things to do with the time!
Skimmed the intro/conclusion of yet another book last night while watching Ghost Whisperer (commercial breaks, actually can get a chapter done in them). Seems to be saying that even the theories that don't think they're political are in fact political, being shaped by the times and circumstances which thought them up and continue to make them. To which I think 'duh'. Because to me this is obvious.
The more I read the more obvious it is to me which bits of my studies thus far I've actually absorbed. Lots of isms, stuf about structures, stuff about readers and the death of the author. Putting it all into any sort of coherent whole may take a while...
I could also read the study skills book on time management and essay writing and research. It will have tables to fill in. I can use pretty colors.
I've been writing in silver all morning because it's the easiest to write over the top of when I get more thoughts.
Does anyone know what happen when you photocopy something covered in metallic silver notes? Do they show up grey or, like, extra white?