Era Might Posted April 18, 2009 Author Share Posted April 18, 2009 [quote name='IcePrincessKRS' post='1839099' date='Apr 17 2009, 09:04 PM']Edgar Allan Poe. Life, death, and the afterlife as seen in his short stories. [/quote] Cool. I have a professor who is in my opinion a genius in pretty much everything about literature, but his primary interest is the American Renaissance. I read Poe with him last semester. I wouldn't be surprised if you came across him in your research. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcePrincessKRS Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 [quote name='Era Might' post='1839100' date='Apr 17 2009, 10:07 PM']Cool. I have a professor who is in my opinion a genius in pretty much everything about literature, but his primary interest is the American Renaissance. I read Poe with him last semester. I wouldn't be surprised if you came across him in your research.[/quote] That's pretty awesome. Part of the reason why I chose to write on Poe was because I wanted to do something different than what seemed the norm at my school. Every year they collect copies of all the Senior theses and they get bound and put in the reference section of the library so I was able to go through all the old papers and see what had been covered and what would be a little more "unique." There were tons of theses on Shakespeare and some on Tolkien, a lot of the really popular authors in Catholic circles, but in 20 years no one had written their thesis on Poe. That was one of my deciding factors. Plus, I just really enjoy his work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkwright Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 I never had to write a major paper in undergrad. I think now I had 2 10 pagers the entire time I was there. I'm not one to freak out much over homework and the like - but now grad school writing has been tough. I've written 2 briefs that weighed in around 40 pages and one brief that I helped on around 60 pages. Just tons and tons of research, constantly. So if anyone wants to know about the availability of punitive damages on a maintenance and cure claim to an injured sailor - I'm your guy Or maybe you're wondering the insurability of punitive damages in Texas? No problem... Whats worse is our exams... they're all 4 hour exams, 1-2 questions - they can be typed and it basically turns into who can type the most in 4 hours. The girl who got the highest grade in my torts class spit out 23 pages single spaced, no citation, no nothing - just writing. I only hit 17 Anyways... finals in 3 weeks oh yay... Good luck with your stuff Era! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 congrats era ! what are you going to school for ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkwright Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 [quote name='eagle_eye222001' post='1838859' date='Apr 17 2009, 04:27 PM']If you need a space waster.....wingdings 2 is the way to go ---------------- Now playing: [url="http://www.foxytunes.com/artist/hans+zimmer+%26+james+newton+howard/track/why+so+serious%3f+(album+version)"]Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard - Why So Serious? (Album Version)[/url] via [url="http://www.foxytunes.com/signatunes/"]FoxyTunes[/url][/quote] Speaking of this... I have a friend who writes on one of the academic journals. They're rough drafts have to be 60 pages long, with a final of 80. Of course they have all the rules about spacing, font, margins... basically anything and everything you can think of. But they didn't have a rule on character spacing - the space between each letter. So he was really struggling on his first draft and decided to do 2.5x on the character spacing. I guess it would be something like t h i s f o r t h e e n t i r e p a p e r. Needless to say they were not happy with him. Bend those rules! I've also seen someone finish their paper, then do edit-find all the periods in the paper and then change the font size on them from say 12 to 14. You can't actually see any difference but it changes up the space just a little bit. It'll add maybe a page every 10 pages or so? hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihil Obstat Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 [quote name='IcePrincessKRS' post='1839099' date='Apr 17 2009, 08:04 PM']Edgar Allan Poe. Life, death, and the afterlife as seen in his short stories. [/quote] YOU ARE MY NEW HERO! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatherineM Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 That's why we have word counts in Seminary so that I can't change my fonts to 8 to squeeze in a few more pages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcePrincessKRS Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 [quote name='Nihil Obstat' post='1839387' date='Apr 18 2009, 02:21 AM'] YOU ARE MY NEW HERO![/quote] One of these days I want to re-type it so I have it saved on the computer. Back when I wrote it I didn't have my own computer so I saved it on disks... and of course those disks are obsolete now... not sure where they would be, either, since we've moved so many times. At least I still have my paper hard copy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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