@anxioustube said: @imsh_pl: The responses to my question are quite wonderful. I think I agree, the content of what exists in what you are discussing is relative to what you are talking about. Using examples for my work is quite common, and the more I use the better the paper tends to be. I try not to be too verbose; in fact, verbosity is often an annoyance to me; I've even played on this in some poetry I've written.
@believer258: I'll have to look into buying this book. The one paragraph that you quoted is quite intriguing to me and happens to ring true in my experience. One thing that I've learned in creative writing is stream-of-consciousness writing. In this process you abandon everything you've learned about writing and just let loose. This is a great warm-up for any paper. It also happens to be a wonderful healer as well; a mental healer, capable of exploring aspects of who you are what you are doing. This is great for English papers, Arts papers, and Social Science papers. I've only written one science paper and I didn't use stream-of-conscious writing during that time, so I have no clue if it is helpful for that type of writing.
@doenut: I've never taken online classes so I have no experience of this. I've written a thirty page paper on Bosch a couple years back that was very expansive, and it needed to be; to explore my own sentiments, what it meant to me, and how Bosch's history impacted what he created in his art. I was asked by my professor at the time if this was actually my writing because it was so academic. It was, of course, my paper. So I've never really experienced what you were talking about but it's interesting that it exists.
@believer258: It's not a problem that I really have anymore, but I understand where you're coming from and thank you for your input.
One thing I will try to add to this conversation is the question: how can we make reviews more concise without limiting ourselves in what we can explain about the game, movie, book, etc? Examples are clearly key to when writing reviews, as they are in English papers and Art papers, but how can we shorten - or do we - reviews so that they can touch more people yet still explore the wonders of what we experience in - yes, I'm going to say it - a piece of art.
Stream-of-consciousness is a good starting point, yes, but you can't really use it for anything except generating ideas. When you're actually writing your paper, you shouldn't even think about using stream-of-consciousness, that's a tool almost solely intended for creative writing.
Let me be blunt - your writing is tedious to read. You expand on things far too much. I'm going to take your response and see if I can make it more concise before I run off to work.
I'll have to look into buying this book. The one paragraph that you quoted is quite intriguing to me and happens to ring true in my experience. One thing that I've learned in creative writing is stream-of-consciousness writing. In this process you abandon everything you've learned about writing and just let loose. This is a great warm-up for any paper. It also happens to be a wonderful healer as well; a mental healer, capable of exploring aspects of who you are what you are doing. This is great for English papers, Arts papers, and Social Science papers. I've only written one science paper and I didn't use stream-of-conscious writing during that time, so I have no clue if it is helpful for that type of writing.
I'll have to look into buying this book, that paragraph you quoted is intriguing. Have you heard of "stream-of-consciousness" writing? In this process, you abandon everything you've learned about writing and let loose. I've found it a great warm up for any paper as well as a mental healer, something that helps you explore aspects of yourself and what you're doing. I've found it a great tool for writing papers.
For the record, I finished college as an English major.
EDIT: I remember being super impressed with Dan Rykert's first review on Giantbomb, I found it pretty concise and detailed. I forget what the game was, though.
One of my college freshman teachers told me that essays should be like a short skirt - long enough to cover everything, but not so long that it's boring. I'd be willing to bet that if your essays were short skirts, they'd reach the knees.
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