Writing - A No Brainer
All right brain - start working. Something creative, something with style. Nothing? Don't give me that. I know you were paying attention in class, and you know what needs to be done. Still playing at being empty? Well it isn't going to work. You won't get away with this. I need this paper done and you are going to get it done for me. Holding on to the - no ideas- bit are you? Fine, It's not like I haven't managed without you before.
I have written many papers without you. Do you remember? Of course not - you weren't there. You may remember reading them though. You know the ones I am talking about. Those papers with the carefully constructed introductory paragraphs. The paragraphs that would lead an unsuspecting professor into believing that I might have something intelligent to say. Worded in a way that said, important information enclosed - read on. Yes, I had many of them fooled.
Still not convinced that I can write one more paper without you? Ha! I say I can and I will. It is just a matter of getting the right thesis statement in order to lead my next unsuspecting victim into a world of ignorance turned intelligence. Oh yes, my rebellious friend, I need only ask myself one question. To research or not to research? Oh the joy of brainless babble is endless. Why, I have known it to go on for years with some people. An example? That's easy,
Warning! Cheap shot and over used slam ahead.>
politicians of course.
I tried to warn you.>
Listen, yeah you, the fool reading this. Take my advice and walk away now. She may actually go ahead with her threat and write this paper without my help. It won't be pretty.>
After the babble comes the easiest part of all - the conclusion. The repeat or summary of everything that had already been said. What could be more simple than that? Still no response from you? Sometimes I wonder who it was, that knocked a hole in my head and let you out. Oh yeah, it was me, that day I fell off my bike and my head on that rock. Once you tasted freedom though you just couldn't leave well enough alone. I suppose if that doctor hadn't stitched me up when he had you would be long gone by now.
Thomas, M. Wynn. "Fratricide and Brotherly Love: Whitman and the Civil War." ed. Ezra Greenspan. The Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995: 27-44.
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Your paper could have been stronger if you had used quotes to back up your ideas.
Cheney, Sheldon. The Age of Reason In Greece: Pythagoras and Plato. Baltimore,Md: Kessinger Publishing, 2008.
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