December 12, 2004

another fascinating entry on paper-writing

Repeat after me: It is NOT realistic to plan to write 1400 words per day on a difficult theoretical/research paper. The dean of our department had it right when he recommended 500 words.

I'm sort of coming up to where I "should" have been on Friday night. It's just really slow. However, if I can nail down the presentation outline tomorrow, I'll have Wednesday and Thursday afternoon and evening to finish the writing.

At first I was writing just slop - disconnected thoughts, including notes to myself. Sentence fragments. Then last night I got horrified at the mess, and today I've been writing in polished mode. I have to stop that, though, and find some place in between, so that I can get through more of it, write the presentation, and then come back and clean it up.

Yeah, sounds good, right? I took a little "break" and read two articles for class on Wednesday. Polish quiz? Don't even ask.

Posted by otto0114 at December 12, 2004 06:55 PM
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