she/her, 29, low resolution brain goblin, prolonged Cinema-Media-Arts and Polisci undergrad, ongoing Gender Situation. Asuka for short, Asukapaper for long, and Jill for real
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Writing my essay due Monday (got an extension, thank god) in a nonlinear order, that is to say I don’t know my argumentative throughline yet so I’m filling different parts of my outline with 250 word summaries of my research sources and hoping to arrange them in a way that makes sense when I’ve hit 2500ish words
Outline-come-raw-draft is done. It sure is rearranged into an order that looks like an argument
Oh shoot maybe this source falls under this heading of the rubric? Nah. It almost does. It’s missing historical facts that could put it in context. Uhhh… the prof let me use non academic sources, so what does the history channel say happened and how can we pretend all these French philosophers are trying to complicate what the history channel is saying
Well that’s an easy 750 words. 750 I might have to pare down to nothing but that’s better than struggling to make wordcount
We should roughly be at wordcount. Now that I have an encyclopedia britannica article to dunk on, I can reorient my existing outlining around where my sources identify points of criticism with the kinds of narratives it makes
Now it’s just a matter of doing 250 words each for three more sources, putting them into a decent order tied together by transitional segments where needed, followed by a conclusion
I hate my adhd is like “let’s take an entire day to do 500 words,” then in one trip to the library I hit 1500 with time to spare for including all my sources
There is finally an argumentative throughline, in that the body finally answers the questions posted in the introduction. Sometimes the phase where you’re finding the thesis and the phase you’re organizing the body and the phase you’re drafting are the same phase