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2 days for an essay
« on: October 14, 2007, 04:25:30 pm »
So I have a bunch of reading and physics homework due tomorrow, and a bunch of math homework due Tuesday. I am thinking about leaving myself two days (Tuesday and Wednesday) to write a 4-5 page paper on the Iliad due Thursday morning. And by 2 days, I mean like 5-7 hours each day = 10-14 hours to do so. This paper will be 30% of my class grade, although he only gave us the prompt on last Thursday, giving us a week to do it. Do you guys think this is too rushed?

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Re: 2 days for an essay
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2007, 05:24:46 pm »
If I where is that situation, this would happen:

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Re: 2 days for an essay
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2007, 05:36:37 pm »
I suppose it depends on how well you work under that kind of stress.  I know when I put a big assignment off until the last minute (especially if it isn't a math-related subject), I tend to do much worse than if I were to start it earlier.

We have calc assignments due once a week, but they take a few hours to do.  For the last few weeks, I've been puting it off until the night before its due.  I go to a coffee shop with my friend and pump out all of the problems while we're there.  It takes forever, but I totally pwn the quizzes since I'm so fresh on the material.

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Re: 2 days for an essay
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2007, 05:54:15 pm »
2 days is all I'm given for some of my essays, grow a pair.

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Re: 2 days for an essay
« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2007, 05:55:21 pm »
2 days is all I'm given for some of my essays, grow a pair.

Are your essays worth 30% of your class grade?

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Re: 2 days for an essay
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2007, 06:00:43 pm »

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Re: 2 days for an essay
« Reply #6 on: October 14, 2007, 08:51:36 pm »
2 days is all I'm given for some of my essays, grow a pair.

Are your essays worth 30% of your class grade?

In my rhetoric class my essays are the only thing that contributes to our final grade, with the exception of the school given Rhetoric Proficiency Exam.

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Re: 2 days for an essay
« Reply #7 on: October 14, 2007, 08:57:41 pm »
In my rhetoric class my essays are the only thing that contributes to our final grade, with the exception of the school given Rhetoric Proficiency Exam.

How many essays do you have to write?  Three?

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Re: 2 days for an essay
« Reply #8 on: October 14, 2007, 09:47:57 pm »
In my rhetoric class my essays are the only thing that contributes to our final grade, with the exception of the school given Rhetoric Proficiency Exam.

How many essays do you have to write?  Three?

We've had 3 so far, we start our fourth Thursday. It is about 1 per week for that class.

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Re: 2 days for an essay
« Reply #9 on: October 14, 2007, 09:55:03 pm »
Really?  14 hours for 5 pages?  It should be about 20 minutes a page...unless I just rock writing papers (which I do).

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Re: 2 days for an essay
« Reply #10 on: October 14, 2007, 09:59:18 pm »
We've had 3 so far, we start our fourth Thursday. It is about 1 per week for that class.

So no paper you've written is worth 30% of your grade.  Don't tell someone to "grow some balls" when you fail to sympathize with their situation.

Really?  14 hours for 5 pages?  It should be about 20 minutes a page...unless I just rock writing papers (which I do).

Oh, stop.  You're so modest!

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Re: 2 days for an essay
« Reply #11 on: October 14, 2007, 10:27:12 pm »
How well do you know the Iliad? Do you need outside references? Do you have a thesis yet?

The time necessary to write 4-5 pages should be minimal (assuming MLA format with double-spacing, 1" margins, etc).  Most of your time should be finding excerpts from the text (unless you are ridiculously organized and highlight/bookmark things), finding related sources, and coming up with personal examples.

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Re: 2 days for an essay
« Reply #12 on: October 15, 2007, 11:42:27 am »
We've had 3 so far, we start our fourth Thursday. It is about 1 per week for that class.

So no paper you've written is worth 30% of your grade.  Don't tell someone to "grow some balls" when you fail to sympathize with their situation.

I'm saying when he gets into college it will be normal so he just needs to get used to it. It doesn't take 2 days to write a 4-5 page paper anyway.

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Re: 2 days for an essay
« Reply #13 on: October 15, 2007, 11:56:10 am »
Most of the uninformed.org papers I have written (somewhere on the order of 30-60p per article typically) were done in either one or two days, not counting research and editing.  Short essays are definitely not a big problem as long as you've got a clear idea of what you're going to write and then sit down and write it out all at once.

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Re: 2 days for an essay
« Reply #14 on: October 15, 2007, 03:11:27 pm »
I'm saying when he gets into college it will be normal so he just needs to get used to it. It doesn't take 2 days to write a 4-5 page paper anyway.
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Re: 2 days for an essay
« Reply #15 on: October 15, 2007, 03:14:24 pm »
I'm saying when he gets into college it will be normal so he just needs to get used to it. It doesn't take 2 days to write a 4-5 page paper anyway.

Yeah, Ender is in college.

It may not take 2 days to write a 4-5 page paper, but I'd rather finish it in one day and then leisurely check over it for the next few days (meaning spending maybe a total of an hour or two refining it).

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Re: 2 days for an essay
« Reply #16 on: October 15, 2007, 09:21:59 pm »
Yes, it's my first year in college, and my first graded college paper, which is why I was a little worried that I was not giving it enough time.

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Re: 2 days for an essay
« Reply #17 on: October 15, 2007, 10:06:13 pm »
I played Halo too much tonight and am too tired to do my paper due tomorrow at 2:30. It will be done and turned in on time though, that is how you do college.

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Re: 2 days for an essay
« Reply #18 on: October 15, 2007, 10:20:08 pm »
I played Halo too much tonight and am too tired to do my paper due tomorrow at 2:30. It will be done and turned in on time though, that is how you do college.

No, that's how you do college.  While I have done that, it's rare that I put things off until the last minute intentionally or because I'm being lazy.

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Re: 2 days for an essay
« Reply #19 on: October 15, 2007, 10:33:27 pm »
Ah yes, the wise freshman sage -_-

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Re: 2 days for an essay
« Reply #20 on: October 15, 2007, 10:34:58 pm »
Ah yes, the wise freshman sage -_-

hahah.

You mean the wise, gentlemanly freshman sage!

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Re: 2 days for an essay
« Reply #21 on: October 15, 2007, 11:31:11 pm »
hahah.

You mean the wise, gentlemanly freshman sage!
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Re: 2 days for an essay
« Reply #22 on: October 15, 2007, 11:44:53 pm »
Aren't you a sophomore? Werd.

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Re: 2 days for an essay
« Reply #23 on: October 15, 2007, 11:50:46 pm »
haha yeah man. I got stoked and omg.
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« Reply #24 on: October 16, 2007, 08:17:56 am »
I played Halo too much tonight and am too tired to do my paper due tomorrow at 2:30. It will be done and turned in on time though, that is how you do college.

No, that's how you do college.  While I have done that, it's rare that I put things off until the last minute intentionally or because I'm being lazy.

That is how college does college.

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Re: 2 days for an essay
« Reply #25 on: October 16, 2007, 10:40:56 am »
That is how college does college.

Why do you even try? :(

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Re: 2 days for an essay
« Reply #26 on: October 16, 2007, 05:01:33 pm »
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Re: 2 days for an essay
« Reply #27 on: October 16, 2007, 07:50:41 pm »
huh??

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Re: 2 days for an essay
« Reply #28 on: October 16, 2007, 08:23:37 pm »
huh??
Here, let me put this in words you understand:
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Re: 2 days for an essay
« Reply #29 on: October 16, 2007, 10:37:10 pm »
Trust writes papers in the way Leeroy Jenkins runs UBRS. Quick, sloppy, and totally failing.
I'd personally do as Joe suggests

You might be right about that, Joe.


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Re: 2 days for an essay
« Reply #30 on: October 17, 2007, 05:43:46 pm »
huh??
Here, let me put this in words you understand:
G UNIT!

What you tryin to do nigga false flaggin like that shit we all knows its G-G-G-G-UNIT.

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Re: 2 days for an essay
« Reply #31 on: October 18, 2007, 04:22:07 pm »
G-G-G-G-GTFO. Damn crackas!

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Re: 2 days for an essay
« Reply #32 on: October 18, 2007, 07:14:25 pm »
Yay. Paper's done, and now I get to watch Smallville :)

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Re: 2 days for an essay
« Reply #33 on: October 19, 2007, 07:59:38 pm »
huh??
Here, let me put this in words you understand:
G UNIT!

What you tryin to do nigga false flaggin like that shit we all knows its G-G-G-G-UNIT.

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I'd personally do as Joe suggests

You might be right about that, Joe.