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Post by Shadd on Jun 3, 2008 21:10:15 GMT -5
That guy sounds like me with an essay.
I end up writing essays ten minutes before the class, then scribbling some stuff on paper to look like rough work.
But filling a canvas, that's pretty awesome. I wish I had that talent. D:
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Post by espacefine on Jun 3, 2008 21:28:10 GMT -5
No no no. You write your essays at the last minute probably because you procrastinate? He does that EVERY DAY FOR FUN.
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Post by Shadd on Jun 3, 2008 21:48:21 GMT -5
No, it's not all in procrastination.
I usually have no actual motive to write it, and if I write the essay on time, it never turns out well. The only time I can write a stupid essay is if I'm scribbling it. In the end, it turns out more like a rant, and I enjoy writing it then. I'm weird though. :/
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Post by alba on Jun 4, 2008 8:07:22 GMT -5
I always write essays the night before/morning of that they're due, because otherwise there's not enough motivation and I write a few sentences then stop, go back later and decide it's rubbish and delete it and start over. If I don't have much time I write it all at once and it ends up flowing better and being better overall.
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Post by Shadd on Jun 4, 2008 8:20:21 GMT -5
Exactly. I can't write an esasy if it's two weeks before the due date. Motivation comes when you're like 'ah, crap, I never started this' and scribble some stuff on paper. And it usually DOES end up flowing so much better that it's somewhat frightening!
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Post by acilf on Jun 4, 2008 9:01:33 GMT -5
You guys seem to have sensible reasoning, I just procrastinate so never get it done xD I shouldn't say never, I mean, I do end up getting it done and assignments and such are done well, it's just I could have easily done them earlier, been less stressed out, but nope, I'm the Procrastination Queen
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Post by Trey on Jun 4, 2008 12:15:05 GMT -5
Yeah, you guys sound like you're making up excuses for procrastination. XD
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Post by naoise on Jun 4, 2008 17:15:42 GMT -5
i procrastinate and am proud of it!
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Post by Clover on Jun 4, 2008 17:55:30 GMT -5
See, I spend seventy percent of the alloted time in the library or online doing research. I will find obscure sources, common sources, any sources. For my political science final essay, I had over twenty sources, and that was me listing the ones I could remember after my harddrive crashed.
I use this time to take rough-draft notes, in pen, in a binder. Hard-copy. Jot notes, ideas, further questions.. everything. Then I use the next twenty percent of the time to write my essay OUTLINE. I'll go paragraph by praragraph; "Thesis Para One -point --point ---point
Para Two -point --point ---point
ect ect."
And then the last ten percent is writing it. But by the time I get around to writing, I just go to my rough draft, which I have organized into cohesive, linking points, and just expand the thoughts. It's time consuming, but pretty effective.
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Post by acilf on Jun 5, 2008 2:13:06 GMT -5
' wow that's some serious planning. If it's a major project I'll do something like that but a lot of the time I can't think about the points I want to cover until I actually start writing. So I tend to write half, stop, now actually plan out bits, then rewrite the beginning and write the rest.
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Post by Shadd on Jun 5, 2008 9:09:31 GMT -5
Clover, I've tried that, but when I write essays that way, they end up to be snoozefests.
I won't lie, I'm a professional procrastinator; But I work better that way xD
When it comes to assignments and whatever else, I try to do it right away, sometimes things come up and I go a bit slower, but hey, that's life.
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Post by Clover on Jun 5, 2008 11:33:05 GMT -5
Ehn... after a while, you get used to it--the seventy percent goes pretty quickly, especially because I enjoy research. The rest kind of just.... falls into place. But its a lot more organized and cohesive like that, which makes it easier to write.
I wrote an essay on political theory at one point--final essay, as a matter of fact, and had one paragraph devoted to the Flying Spaghetti Monster response to the Judeo-Christian vs Atheist fallacy.
So the topics don't need to be boring. It just has to be a tight essay. XD
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Post by espacefine on Jun 5, 2008 13:48:52 GMT -5
I try not to do too much research, because I lose too much time in it. I get distracted so hardcore. D=
Especially if I start reading Wikipedia articles, cause then I'll go around clicking every links and reading more, and go from an article about the Canadian constitution to the different types of popcorn grains to the origin of bikinis.
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Post by Trey on Jun 5, 2008 13:56:15 GMT -5
Clover...
I love you.
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Post by alba on Jun 5, 2008 15:15:23 GMT -5
Clover: I spend most of my time doing research, do a bit of a plan, then spend a couple hours at the end writing it. However, with English essays which are close-readings of a passage, we don't necessarily need secondary sources, and I'll have read the book so I just have to mark up the passage and then make a bit of a plan of what goes where, then write it.
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