Screaming Bean |
Thursday, April 29, 2004
I've been writing a paper. I was a history major in college, so writing a paper of any length should not be a huge problem. Yet, it is. When I'm writing a "legal paper," I get the sinking feeling I'm not actually writing english but rather in a foreign language I only have a rudimentary grasp on. This is the first time I've had to write a legal scholarly tome, and it looks like it. I'm not a member of a journal, and now I understand why. This assignment is part of my nebulous "upper level writing requirement." What this means exactly, I'm not quite sure. The consensus is approximately 20-25 pages of a publishable caliber. Realistically, will this be a publishable paper? In a perfect world in which I've given a great deal of money to a scholarly journal, maybe. Am I breaking new ground here? Hell no. If I wanted to break new scholarly ground, I would have stayed a history major and gotten a Ph.D. Looking back, greek architecture and Roman history seem to be a hell of alot more interesting than the Pregnancy Discrimination Act. Think I can fill part of the paper discussing the entasis of the columns of the Parthenon?
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