the studenting life

[lotesse]

Christ why will this paper not end?! I keep writing - and it keeps getting bigger. Am now over minimum page length, nearing maximum, and I still have waaaay to many notecards left unincorporated.

... I think I may have over-researched. Curse Ivanhoe anyway, for having both Jews and Saracens. How can I write about one and leave out the other?! But on the other hand, I want to be done with this asdaklsjf paper.

Comments

[starlady]

I turned in my draft introduction and an outline for the rest of my paper last month, and at the meeting my advisor said, "You realize this could be a book" and I said, "Yeah, but I'm only going to write it as 25 pages" (which is the max length). So I don't actually think it's possible to over-research; at least for me the trick is not to digress from the shortest path possible though the paper.

Speaking of which, back to work.

[lotesse]

In theory, I agree with you - but my trajectory with this project got weirded because I didn't have a laptop, couldn't write, and just read like six more books instead. That whole shortest path thing sounds good. I think I managed it, but I'm just hoping it doesn't come at the expense of coherence!

[starlady]

Good luck!