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[deadlycairn]

It's too late now. He's outta time, judging by time of post. Here's hoping he managed to do it.

[Vester]

Well that's a bummer. But seriously, 2 pages? At most that should be 3 hours of work, 1.5 if you're doing a rush job.

[Muz]

I have to write two pages of speech/emotion synthesis literature review by tommorrow. And another two pages by Monday. And some conclusion by Tuesday morning. And I had 11 weeks to do it. I could sympathize with the guy; 25% of my marks is based on this paper

[Capntastic]

Its 6:27pm and I am really not sure what to do.

Write the essay instead of posting here?  It's not like 2 pages is some Herculean task to accomplish in, say, a few hours.

Edit:  Though I note you haven't posted since the OP.   GOOD JOB!

[Kusgnos]

What kind of English classes do you guys take? In my English classes, there is no BSing. The teachers home in on it like angry wasps to pearly flesh.

Though I suppose getting a 50% is infinitely preferable to a 0%. I wonder how this went.

[Vector]

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[deadlycairn]

As long as you support your BS, it's not really BS. If the question asks you "Describe one theme of the novel, and say why you thought it was important" you can name damn near ANYTHING as the theme, as long as you support it. There's no controls on what novels you actually use, and the markers aren't expected to know them all. Still, BS is a fine art, it's easier in some cases to do the work.

[Vester]

I'm a Sophomore, majoring in Literature.

Lit Crit classes are literally nothing but BS.

[Duke 2.0]

 BS? Welcome to Literature.

[Vester]

That's how we roll.

Also, you have to be a good BS'er, otherwise your GPA will go straight to hell.

[Sappho]

I majored in comparative literature in university and I can vouch for the truth of the above comic.

[Aqizzar]

Ah yes, literature.  I've done some of my best bullshitting in literature, which is ironic because I pretty much always read what I'm supposed to.  Did manage to write a seven page paper about the differences between A Clockwork Orange book and movie versions, without seeing or reading more than half of either.

Still, that doesn't even compare to the monumental bovine excrement that's saved my History minor a couple times.

[Jude]

Christ. I steer a mile clear of anything with the phrase "literary criticism" involved, or hell, any kind of criticism besides "constructive." I'd sure never take a class in it.

Postmodern wank for people with more brains than common sense.

[eerr]

a paper for critisizing people who write bad papers?

maybe high schools should use this on their "students"

[Aqizzar]

a paper for critisizing people who write bad papers?

maybe high schools should use this on their "students"

I've had several such papers in college, where students had to (anonymously) grade other student's papers.  I imagine it's not used much in high schools because everyone is a lot more familiar and could probably figure out who they're grading.