Carried away on paper for school

kevinthenerd

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I was supposed to write a paper for my sociology class. 600 word minimum, no max. It was on the functionalist perspective of poverty.

I get really passionate about that sort of stuff. 9 pages and 2000 words later, I think I just successfully disproved the professor.

w00t
 

Looney

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Oooo, you don't want to do that! 600 words, 1st year student? No professor is going to like being disproved by a first year student... but more than likely, you didn't, and there are holes that you just don't see. And you've just given him 9 pages of criticism to write up.
 

Anubis

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you wanna get excited about

nonlinear localizations of magnetic excitations in discrete antiferromagnetic lattices for me and write 9 pages on it

im working on that now. SOOO much fun
 

kevinthenerd

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Originally posted by: Moralpanic
Oooo, you don't want to do that! 600 words, 1st year student? No professor is going to like being disproved by a first year student... but more than likely, you didn't, and there are holes that you just don't see. And you've just given him 9 pages of criticism to write up.

I'm a second-semester sophomore, actually. If I'm disproven by the professor, I will have learned more than settling for a mediocre paper full of what he wants to see.

If I get an F, I won't care. I did a great job on that paper, and it stands by itself as a testiment to my ability to hyperfocus. I sat down, wrote the paper, then got up without a single break, and it has insane unity, flow, and logical structure as a consequence. Without babbling, it is one in thought.
 

kevinthenerd

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Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis
You wrote too much. Judging from your previous posts, I doubt you disproved your professor.

Judging from your previous posts, I doubt you are a happy person.
 

kevinthenerd

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Originally posted by: Anubis
you wanna get excited about

nonlinear localizations of magnetic excitations in discrete antiferromagnetic lattices for me and write 9 pages on it

im working on that now. SOOO much fun

hrmm... sounds interesting to a total n00b, actually
 

Looney

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Originally posted by: kevinthenerd
Originally posted by: Moralpanic
Oooo, you don't want to do that! 600 words, 1st year student? No professor is going to like being disproved by a first year student... but more than likely, you didn't, and there are holes that you just don't see. And you've just given him 9 pages of criticism to write up.

I'm a second-semester sophomore, actually. If I'm disproven by the professor, I will have learned more than settling for a mediocre paper full of what he wants to see.

If I get an F, I won't care. I did a great job on that paper, and it stands by itself as a testiment to my ability to hyperfocus. I sat down, wrote the paper, then got up without a single break, and it has insane unity, flow, and logical structure as a consequence. Without babbling, it is one in thought.

A paper that requires grading is not the time to have an intellectual armwrestle with him. If you wanted to do that, do it in class while it was being brought up, or visit him in the office. Trust me, you're an undergrad, he's a prof. I'm not saying profs are perfect, but more than likely, he knows about what he's talking about. He gave you the limit of 600 words, he wasn't looking for you to disprove him... if he did, he would have given you a bigger limit.
 

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If you're dead set on it, have a few other people read it or something. Yeah, a paper isn't necessarily the best battleground for "disproving" your instructor, particularly if it's graded. Choose your battles. Makes no sense to go down if it's for nothing.

If you really did a good job on the paper, that "should" show through. That being said, quantity does not automatically equal quality. Get it proofread, cut down if and when necessary.
 

kevinthenerd

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Originally posted by: Moralpanic
Originally posted by: kevinthenerd
Originally posted by: Moralpanic
Oooo, you don't want to do that! 600 words, 1st year student? No professor is going to like being disproved by a first year student... but more than likely, you didn't, and there are holes that you just don't see. And you've just given him 9 pages of criticism to write up.

I'm a second-semester sophomore, actually. If I'm disproven by the professor, I will have learned more than settling for a mediocre paper full of what he wants to see.

If I get an F, I won't care. I did a great job on that paper, and it stands by itself as a testiment to my ability to hyperfocus. I sat down, wrote the paper, then got up without a single break, and it has insane unity, flow, and logical structure as a consequence. Without babbling, it is one in thought.

A paper that requires grading is not the time to have an intellectual armwrestle with him. If you wanted to do that, do it in class while it was being brought up, or visit him in the office. Trust me, you're an undergrad, he's a prof. I'm not saying profs are perfect, but more than likely, he knows about what he's talking about. He gave you the limit of 600 words, he wasn't looking for you to disprove him... if he did, he would have given you a bigger limit.

600 was the minimum.
 

kevinthenerd

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Originally posted by: Hossenfeffer
If you're dead set on it, have a few other people read it or something. Yeah, a paper isn't necessarily the best battleground for "disproving" your instructor, particularly if it's graded. Choose your battles. Makes no sense to go down if it's for nothing.

If you really did a good job on the paper, that "should" show through. That being said, quantity does not automatically equal quality. Get it proofread, cut down if and when necessary.

I know quantity and quality are two separate things. I did all I could to shorten it.
 

kevinthenerd

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Originally posted by: TechnoKid
2000 words on 9 pages? I type like 1700 words on four pages.

With an uber vocabulary (in an effort to say more with fewer words, NOT to impress) and headings to each section, it isn't a bad ratio of words/page.