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Originally Posted by Mike33
lol, I should have at least tried writing a paper that way. I just took everything very seriously. Hours upon hours of anguish, blood, and sweat went into every essay I had to write. And unless I felt I had familiarized myself with the subject enough, I really had no idea whether the paper was a winner or not.
It'd probably be different now. I've read more and I write more often. I know I write better now than before.
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To be honest, the papers I had to write myself were mostly for English classes, so I had to actually have read the book and try to make up some insight into it as well as inserting relevant quotes (crap, as described in the following paragraph). The term paper I did for another person was on some political stuff, so it was mostly fact based, which made it easier; nothing to really make up or interpret.
On a side note, I think a lot of critical reviews of authors, however famous they are, are crap. The fact that one of the first reviews of [insert famous writer / artist]'s [insert work of art] by [some flunky who couldn't write their own stuff] gained some recognition by a bunch of other followers and then became literary / artistic "fact" in regard to what the work represents and "means" just shows how little most people think on their own. -- Hell, look at this board... it's a microcosm of people who can't think on their own.
