Dec
7
2003

mark-up

I’m working on a paper for my Presidential Politics & Communication class. As usual, I put the thing off until the last minute. (It’s 15 pages long, and due tomorrow. Yipes!)

My usual strategy of writing a paper is to come up with a topic, sketch out a skeleton outline of what I want to talk about, and then go through various information sources (textbooks, news stories, academic journals, etc.) to find quotes that will fit in with my thesis. Once I have my outline and my page o’ quotes, it’s a relatively simple matter to combine the two, flesh out the transitions, and produce … the paper.

As I’m going through this exercise, I’m finding myself increasingly grateful for having marked up my textbooks for previous classes. In those sources, finding the right quotes is a simple matter of looking up the appropriate chapter/essay and scanning for a relevant underlined/highlighted passage.

It’s the little things that help preserve my sanity.

Posted at 7:31 PM in personal, school

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