It's the new year and I am extremely worried (This post is mostly a rant because I've been thinking about it way to much this morning and I need to get it out). I have no clue how I'm going to do this. I had two weeks to do all my homework. Two long weeks and somehow it's Friday of the last week of this vacation. Like I don't know what happened. I was suppose to be done with my history reading and homework and mini project since last Friday. That's what I planned. But no, I finished it today...an entire week later.
This is extremely not good. How am I suppose to get through a whole book and 11 more months of articles? Like I really do not know what to do right now. Like not only do I have to read but I have to do all those bibliographies and what not. AND OMGOSH I have to pass in work from a while ago so I have to remember to pass all that stuff in.
I am extremely overwhelmed right now...I need to buy a planner, the agenda books are not working for me, it's too small, my life can not fit in that small agenda book.
AND I CAN'T FIND MY PROJECT BINDER WITH THE MONTHS OF ARTICLES IN IT AND I'VE BEEN LOOKING ALL WEEK which means now I have to reprint everything....
joy...
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Oh Stephanie, you shall have to deal with your first meltdown of the year. But your author seems pretty interesting, so her writing should be fun to read? Just think, as soon as we finish this paper, Heba's birthday will be approaching! That should be more than enough to motivate you. ;)
I hate planners, they don't work at all.(for me) Post-its are a better way of organization. Well, good luck.
Okay, to avoid stressing...
Good news - you have three weeks left.
If you are worried about annotative bibliographies - you do not need to do one for everyone of her articles...that is way way too much work.
I'm not sure how her book is situated but perhaps a bibliography for every six pages - which is about seven for her book, plus ten article bibliographies suffices.
You should read a large portion of her columns. If a year is too much, though I think they are short, you may wish to make some adjustments. She publishes twice a week for a year is 100 articles - though they are only about a page each. Perhaps, scan for interesting titles and read them or see if you can find a few essays in other publications and do less of her column work.
We can chat Monday.
Best,
Mr. W.
My recommendation is worry about what is important to your understanding of the author and their works. If you don't have the time to write out all of your ideas in notes and Annotated Bibliographies and Research Logs and Blog Entries, don't worry about it all. Just keep note of what's important so you can go back to do it. I see the numbers for everything that Walsh gave us as more guidelines than exact requirements (and he very well may disagree with me)
For example, my first book was a novel, so I couldn't really do a research log, but once I start doing essays, I will focus more on the Research Logs than the Annotated Bibliographies.
Think about your final paper. What will be most useful to you when you have to write about your author?
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