Update of sorts
Apr. 2nd, 2007 08:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acquiescenceSo you know that paper I wrote 2 weeks ago?
It got a D, and when I first heard that I thought maybe I'd lost my touch. I've never made anything below an A on a paper before, and then for this one to get a D on it was so sad. But then my friend told me the reason for the grade.
It was a research paper, not a poetry analysis paper as I had been told it was. And thus the lack of research outside of poetry/author introductions, was not done.
So my first reaction was to feel really bad for my friend, but then I got a little perturbed.
I mean, it makes me look bad and all that, like I don't know what I'm doing. And then he wanted to get upset with me over it. And that was just not very nice. So we argued about that for a little bit, he has decided that if it I didn't know it was a research paper I shouldn't have cited my sources, but doodz plagiarism anyone?
So, my list of works cited, was for him, evidence that I had known it was a research paper and not simply a poetry analysis paper. And it's just frustrating since I had enjoyed writing the paper so much, to find out it did so poorly when graded.
In other news, I am really enjoying writing for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
j2_notes I updated that last night before bed. It really is some of the best response to anything I've written before, so that just makes me very bouncy. So go check it out and tell your friends :D
Next, my mom sent me a package so that should be in the mail very soon. The thing is she also mailed a package to my roommate. And the roommate package got here before mine, I am feeling very petulant.
And um... that might be it for now
It got a D, and when I first heard that I thought maybe I'd lost my touch. I've never made anything below an A on a paper before, and then for this one to get a D on it was so sad. But then my friend told me the reason for the grade.
It was a research paper, not a poetry analysis paper as I had been told it was. And thus the lack of research outside of poetry/author introductions, was not done.
So my first reaction was to feel really bad for my friend, but then I got a little perturbed.
I mean, it makes me look bad and all that, like I don't know what I'm doing. And then he wanted to get upset with me over it. And that was just not very nice. So we argued about that for a little bit, he has decided that if it I didn't know it was a research paper I shouldn't have cited my sources, but doodz plagiarism anyone?
So, my list of works cited, was for him, evidence that I had known it was a research paper and not simply a poetry analysis paper. And it's just frustrating since I had enjoyed writing the paper so much, to find out it did so poorly when graded.
In other news, I am really enjoying writing for
j2_notes I updated that last night before bed. It really is some of the best response to anything I've written before, so that just makes me very bouncy. So go check it out and tell your friends :DNext, my mom sent me a package so that should be in the mail very soon. The thing is she also mailed a package to my roommate. And the roommate package got here before mine, I am feeling very petulant.
And um... that might be it for now
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Date: 2007-04-03 07:47 am (UTC)But the big ole teacher in me is frowing and saying your friend should have written his own damn paper in the first place, and not had to make you feel bad...
*snuggles*
Missed you today (and tomorrow, when I'm teaching again!)
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Date: 2007-04-03 04:08 pm (UTC)*pets*
I missed you too.
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Date: 2007-04-03 07:51 am (UTC)I'm thinking you need to charge him another $100 for your pain and suffering. How could he put you into a situation where you doubted your own natural awesomeness?