Dispatch from Prelims #1
Today is Day 3 of my prelim take-home extravaganza. I've written about as many paragraphs so far. Seems like a pretty meager start with only nine days remaining until I turn them in. As anticipated, the hardest part has been motivation and actually sitting down to grind out the answers.
Selecting the questions was really easy. I ruled one out in an instant for various reasons: 1) I'm not interested in the topic; 2) related to #1, I don't know as much about the topic; and 3) I think I know who wrote the question and who will be the primary grader of it (I'll leave it to you to guess why this might be of concern). Unfortunately, anecdotally anyway, I know that this kind of factor tends to play into students' choices in these situations.
The questions themselves are not difficult, in that I feel I can formulate good answers to them. The issue is the amount of work and time it's going to take to do so. Here's where motivation comes in.... Perhaps I should be more mindful of #6 on Chris' Motivational Bull Memo
Comments
I hadn't seen that memo before--there's some good tips in there!
Posted by: Jerry | October 18, 2007 09:53 AM
If you want an instant pick-me-up, read my most recent bulletin on MySpace. (The request for the reader to sit down before reading was primarily aimed at you...).
:)
Posted by: Sarah (The Other One) | October 18, 2007 10:06 AM