Engineers And Paper-Writing

[tabular_rasa]

I find it ridiculous that Lisa completed this entire year without having written a single paper more than one page long! I wrote over twenty papers, each at least two pages-- as many as seven per single class!

This doesn't really bother me, of course-- I like writing papers; in fact, I prefer them over nearly every other form of workload there is. Essay tests are the next best thing, but I am not so hot with multiple-choice (and especially true-false!) tests, short-answer tests turn into essay tests, for me, and God forbid I ever have to do any straight up math homework or fucking WeBWorK, lol . . .

Yet that's astounding that she's never even had to write a single one! Even engineers have to write papers, Lisa (as you have so tragically had to find out O.o)-- maybe they should have made Writing I a requirement for engineers, too . . . O.o . . .

God I miss school. Though I do need to write this book. I am conflicted between wanting this summer to hurry the hell up or stop the freak short in its tracks, lol . . .

(Why does the "Song of the Volga Boat Men" come to mind when I think of engineers? O.o . . . )



(Also, how can one entry on one stupid thing be so freaking long? I prove my point about essay-tests and writing papers, above!)

Comments

[mona-lisa-73.livejournal.com]

It's not only the paper (although that is a large portion) causing my distress, but that on top of work in general. I'll update you on how far I get today. *grumbles*

And I'm also self-concious about my writing. My advisor is going to read it; and I want to possibly get a recommendation out of him in the future . . . what if it sucks? I hate feeling like a failure--that is my biggest fear, you know.

[tabular-rasa.livejournal.com]

Obviously it's not your fault you've not had to write more papers. This is probably why you should have-- there are still papers to be written in the Engineering circle, and the only way to get comfortable/good at writing them is to . . . write them.

So writing a paper at the same time as other loads of work is not a good thing.

You may have to be repeatedly obnoxious and just keep asking if you're doing things right. I can help you a little bit, if you like, but I don't know if an engineering report is anything much like an essay in structure and such, so I might not be that much help. Besides, it's not as hard as it sounds once you get going; you'll have things to say (and just meat it up like I do in my journal entries :-P).