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Grad Adventures: The First Big Paper
October 16, 2005 ( geek )
Actually, at this point I'm pretty much done. I might go back through and tidy things up one more time, check references, spelling, etc., but the structure is complete, and I get to revise it again after class discussion on the book manana.
It's a lit review on a wide variety of readings and one book. It's heavily academic and probably not my best piece of work, as I only really got in to one third (content, sadly, not length) of the readings, but had to find an argument that encompassed the whole set. Below are some tidbits from my writing process:
GoogleFight for neologism spell-checking
I'm referencing in my paper an idea of Foucault and I wanted to say Foucault-ian, but I didn't know how to adapt the word, because I've seen FoucaulDian and foucalTian both.So I used GoogleFight to determine the most used version
Foucauldian wins 4:1 http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=foucauldian&word2=foucaultian
In related news; I whoop the ass of a hoard of pirate cybermonkey ninjas.
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=GriffJon&word2=A+hoard+of+pirate+cybermonkey+ninjas
But I bet the Pirate Captain of the Internet could still be a fair fight.
Amazon for citations
One of the books for Monday's paper/presentation is Marginal Gains. I've been abusing Amazon's Search-inside-the-book to find some citations I'd failed to take note of while reading. Amazon also provides SIPs -- Statistically Improbable Phrases, that occur in one book and few (if any) others. In Marginal Gains, one of the SIPs is "enough petrol"Yup, that's statistically improbable.
"Productivity"
While writing this paper, I discovered everything I can do in a given amount of time that doesn't include writing the paper:-made and eaten dinner (kinda important)
-cleaned up the kitchen
-read up on today's DC newspaper
-checked email, blogs, etc.
-moved paper around
-cleaned out keyboard/handrest gunk on my laptop
-made this blog entries/responses
Posted by griffjon at October 16, 2005 07:05 PM
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