For almost a year now since I removed my grade of 4 in ENG 1 (College English) and obtained my passing grade of 3, it has been a haunting question to me how I will survive the level 2 of the course, ENG 2 (College English 2). One of the biggest walls I should conquer to pass the course is the ever so famous Library Research Paper or more frighteningly abbreviated to LRP.
While the instructors try their best to ease the difficulty by taking a step-by-step approach, it still depends on the student's ability to learn, apply and renew. The first step of course in the LRP process is thinking about a tasty topic that will serve as the first bone of the whole paper and also an interesting introduction that will serve as the first flesh. If the instructor's satisfied, you get to cook the whole meal for the rest of the semester until before the submission week were taste tests are unnecessary since our instructors intend to dig in with our supposed 'interesting' papers.
We were given the whole Christmas break to work on a topic and come up with an intro. It's no sweat really because we tend to write about those that interest us but when it's time to defend your position we suddenly find it hard to see the relevance o the topic. Unlike those who spent their holidays wisely by including academics in their agenda, I slacked off. Procrastination is the bane of development and it always gets the better of me. Perhaps the only negatively positive return from procrastinating is cramming and rushing. Some people find more efficiency in cramming, I find more stress in it.
Still I am thankful that I got my topic and it was approved. I had it in my thoughts as an idea for one of my stories but I didn't think it could be a plausible topic for a LRP.
My topic is about Chiromancy. I've had it stuck in my head for a few months now since I learned what a straight crease on a person's hand implicates. I possess a Simian Crease or scientifically known as a single transverse palmar crease (I still prefer simian crease, not because of simians but it sounds cooler that way).
Now enters the real wall with all those black crows. Eight pages of academic bleeding coming right up.
While the instructors try their best to ease the difficulty by taking a step-by-step approach, it still depends on the student's ability to learn, apply and renew. The first step of course in the LRP process is thinking about a tasty topic that will serve as the first bone of the whole paper and also an interesting introduction that will serve as the first flesh. If the instructor's satisfied, you get to cook the whole meal for the rest of the semester until before the submission week were taste tests are unnecessary since our instructors intend to dig in with our supposed 'interesting' papers.
We were given the whole Christmas break to work on a topic and come up with an intro. It's no sweat really because we tend to write about those that interest us but when it's time to defend your position we suddenly find it hard to see the relevance o the topic. Unlike those who spent their holidays wisely by including academics in their agenda, I slacked off. Procrastination is the bane of development and it always gets the better of me. Perhaps the only negatively positive return from procrastinating is cramming and rushing. Some people find more efficiency in cramming, I find more stress in it.
Still I am thankful that I got my topic and it was approved. I had it in my thoughts as an idea for one of my stories but I didn't think it could be a plausible topic for a LRP.
My topic is about Chiromancy. I've had it stuck in my head for a few months now since I learned what a straight crease on a person's hand implicates. I possess a Simian Crease or scientifically known as a single transverse palmar crease (I still prefer simian crease, not because of simians but it sounds cooler that way).
Now enters the real wall with all those black crows. Eight pages of academic bleeding coming right up.
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