/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17976895]

>In this essay, I will

[Anonymous No.17976904]

>Firstly
>Secondly
>Finally
>In conclusion

[Anonymous No.17976908]

>>17976895
Cleary demark your arguments with clear and concise meta discourse before stating them?

[Anonymous No.17976909]

>The first reason for this is
>Then the second reason
>And the lastly the third reason why

[Anonymous No.17976913]

>In conclusion
>Thus
>Moreover
>Hence
>Synergised
>Afforementioned
>Essentially
>Failed humour attempts
>Indecipherable schizo babble

I'm not doing so hot, bros...

[Anonymous No.17976915]

>In conclusion,

[Anonymous No.17976917]

>>17976895
t. core writing instructor

[Anonymous No.17976929]

>As you can see,

[Anonymous No.17976932]

>>17976895
>Today, I am writing about

[Anonymous No.17976937]

>>17976913
Meditate cat bro. Your fluff will shine

[Anonymous No.17976938]

The language is clear and concise. I don’t see the problem.

[Anonymous No.17976948]

>>17976895
>I will, in this essay

[Anonymous No.17976960]

>Ah, it seems we have reached the end of our little journey. I hope this experience has been enlightening for you.

[Anonymous No.17976962]

>In this essay, big chungus will

[Anonymous No.17976964]

>>17976938
Meta discourse is typically frowned upon because it isn't concise to say what you will do when you can just do it.

[Anonymous No.17977016]

>>17976913
>>Essentially
>>Failed humour attempts
>>Indecipherable schizo babble
oh man thats how they will read my essay, isnt it

[Anonymous No.17977033]

>>17976938
Its lazy and I can imagine every professor rolling his eyes and reconsidering his live choices when yet another Bachelor starts the introduction like that.

[Anonymous No.17977044]

>>17976895
are you the ta that's marking my term essay right now?

[Anonymous No.17977065]

>this quote shows

[Anonymous No.17977085]

>here we see
>as we see
>so
>now

[Anonymous No.17977088]

>>17977033
Except no one in the sciences seems to care. I've read so many dissertations in progress where meta discourse abounds. They're not well written, admittedly, but I suspect most of the academy doesn't actually care about promoting good writing.

[Anonymous No.17977089]

>>17976895
>Introduction paragraph
>Body Paragraph 1
>Body Paragraph 2
>Body Paragraph 3
>Conclusion

[Anonymous No.17977090]

Guys how the fuck do I start a research essay

[Anonymous No.17977096]

>>17977089
>Introduction
>Methods
>Results
>Discussion

[Anonymous No.17977102]

>>17977090
What's your subject?

[Anonymous No.17977109]

best book on how to write an essay?

[Anonymous No.17977112]

>>17977090
Put a quote from Horace in italics at the beginning

[Anonymous No.17977114]

>>17976960
Basado.

>>17977089
Unironically good for grades 6-11. By 12 and up you should understand this and internalize it and be capable of deviating from it.

[Anonymous No.17977125]

>>17976895
>Forgets to cite one quote and gets a 0 for plagiarism.

[Anonymous No.17977130]

My professors got butthurt when I didn't follow the formula of "this essay will..." etc

It's tiresome and boring to write but I just give them what they want

[Anonymous No.17977153]

>>17977088
I guess it depends on your field, in the hard sciences an elaborate prose would just be seen as distracting so you are expected to use a standardized language for working out your result. In the social sciences and especially liberal arts its pretty embarrassing though.

[Anonymous No.17977160]

>>17977090
Write whatever you want to and find sources later.
Use lots of compound sentences that say something general in the first half and something specific in the second to make it easier to litter references around your essay so it looks adequately researched when it is not.

[Anonymous No.17977161]

>it is in my humble opinion

[Anonymous No.17977162]

>>17977109
Booth, Colomb, and Williams' The Craft of Research is decent. I've used the third edition to expand my rhetorical choices beyond all the variations to the five-paragraph essay I learned in college.

[Anonymous No.17977175]

>>17977153
Meta discourse represents elaborate prose. And the hard sciences is where I've seen this rhetorical choice most frequently.

[Anonymous No.17977192]

>>17977125
>In his commentary Chad concludes that X
>citation needed
duh where do you think its from

[Anonymous No.17977207]

>>17977192
But if you put the year next to the name its suddenly glass clear lmao

[Anonymous No.17977208]

>Announcing the topic and 3 main angles
>In conclusion, i showed the three possible ways

[Anonymous No.17977223]

>Write essay on film music
>Explain my views and opinions on film music and truth
>Reference examples in films fully
>Don't cite anything as I don't need to, this is an essay on MY views
>Get docked marks for not quoting some other irrelevant faggots
Fuck you academia is gay

[Anonymous No.17977225]

>I, in this essay, shall undermine

[Anonymous No.17977228]

I'm in graduate school and I almost never read the things I cite.

When I was an undergrad, and even when I was in highschool, I would just look up whatever topic I would have to write about on wikipedia, and just copy the citations at the bottom and completely misattribute whatever argument the original authors would have in favor for whatever argument I happened to be making in my essays; I never got caught, no teachers or professors will ever check your citations.

I have sense graduated to- more or less the same stagey except with academic digital libraries like Jstor, or whatever online journal/database your university has access to. Just do a simple ctrl+f and find keywords your looking for, and use them as "examples" to back up your point; hell you can even take entire graphs and just use them as evidence to back up your points in your papers, even if the graphs have little to no relevance to your argument.

As long as you are not submitting a dissertation, thesis, or writing for a journal, your superiors will basically never double check your citations, ever.

Writing essays is so fucking formulaic that after a few years you basically know how to institutionally write an A+ paper. With the right amount of filler-words, academic jargon, and citations, it's just too easy to not do.

oh and btw, all writing services who charge students to write their papers, do exactly the same thing.

[Anonymous No.17977237]

so, I see we all got the 5 paragraph essays drilled into our heads during elementary school

[Anonymous No.17977243]

>CITATION NEEDED

[Anonymous No.17977252]

>>17977207
In the APA Manual of Style, the date is used because the timeliness of the data has been deemed important. Sure, it can also help readers discern individual sources, but that's not it's primary reason for inclusion. Other citation styles would forgo the date, but maybe include other information important to those discourse communities.

[Anonymous No.17977258]

>>17976913
>>Failed humour attempts
>>Indecipherable schizo babble
fuck that's literally me

[Anonymous No.17977259]

> hence

[Anonymous No.17977260]

>>17976895
>In this essay, I won't.

[Anonymous No.17977263]

>>17977223
If the assignment asked you to include secondary sources and you didn't, that's on you. You'd typically be citing your primary sources anyway, so I'm surprised you didn't get dinged on that too.

[Anonymous No.17977264]

>>17977223
opinion essays still need to be supported by evidence, i.e citations; unless your instructor explicitly explains that you don't need citations, you should always include them.

[Anonymous No.17977265]

>>17977252
>APA Manual of Style
Fuck that. Chicago Manual of Style is the only standard that you should ever need or use. APA and MLA are shit in comparison.

[Anonymous No.17977272]

>>17976895
>In this essay I won't:
Make good points

>In this essay I will
Waste your fucking time

[Anonymous No.17977275]

Guys, is Plagiarism software real, or is it a red herring used to scare undergraduates to do their essays properly?

[Anonymous No.17977285]

>Bearing in mind
>In reference to
>As purported by

[Anonymous No.17977294]

>>17977228
I've worked with various programs and departments, and some are really aggro about citation style fidelity, to the point that it's all the instructors seem to care about. But in the English department, after MLA 8 came out, I just switched to APA 6, and no one said a thing.

[Anonymous No.17977297]

>>17977275
it's real

plagiarism is an atheist idea, and university is an atheist revival, and atheist created the concept of''intellectual property'' to make money out of it, so plagiarism is always serious in atheism, but since atheists know it's mostly laffed at, they try to pass plagiarism has wrongthink and a lack of humanistic virtues lol

[Anonymous No.17977301]

>>17977275
yeah it's real, sometimes it even highlights things like quotes as plagiarism, or even citations.

[Anonymous No.17977307]

>>17977275
both

[Anonymous No.17977317]

> irregardless

[Anonymous No.17977320]

>>17977265
I liked APA 6 and dislike APA 7, and I agree that MLA 8 is complete trash. I like CMS 17 well enough (it's likely my favorite for everything but journal articles, where I still prefer APA), but I can switch between numerous publication/citation styles depending on the expectations of my readers.

[Anonymous No.17977324]

>>17977294
who cares, there are a million websites that can automatically format your citations to whatever style your instructor wants, be it Chicago, APA, MLA and so on

[Anonymous No.17977327]

>>17977263
>>17977264
BO-RING

[Anonymous No.17977334]

>>17977327
>essay about film music due
>submit a greentext
>fail the paper
>FUCK academia.. I just want to EXPRESS myself bros..

[Anonymous No.17977336]

>>17977207
>As Aristotle (1993) makes clear,

[Anonymous No.17977342]

>>17976895
I'm proud to say that I've never done this.

[Anonymous No.17977343]

>>17977297
>>17977301
lol how does it work? Is it scanning some collective data base looking for matching sentences? Thats ridiculous and whats more ridiculous is the money those Unis probably pay for that shit.

[Anonymous No.17977350]

>>17977336
APA is fucking ridiculous, social "sciences" using that as their standard should tell you everything you need to know.

[Anonymous No.17977351]

>>17977320
Well, I mean sure. If you want to be reasonable, you use the citation style that fits your subject and your audience. But 4channel dot org is not the place for reason, and if I am going to be unreasonable and pick a hill to die on here, it's going to be the superiority of Chicago to APA or MLA.

I will say in all seriousness though that I think MLA style is absolutely awful; worlds worse than even APA. In text citations look horrible and break up the flow of a written text.

[Anonymous No.17977354]

>>17977275
It's real but you'd have to be a total fucking retard with your plagiarizing to get caught out by it.

[Anonymous No.17977356]

>>17977090
1. Establish common ground with the reader on your research subject
2. State a problem with the common ground that includes a condition of incomplete knowledge and the consequences of that gap.
3. Respond to (and/or propose a resolution to) this problem with your argument or thesis.

[Anonymous No.17977365]

>>17977343
>Is it scanning some collective data base looking for matching sentences
Yes. There are even "paraphrasing" tools available online that mongoloids use to avoid the AI from detecting their plagiarism, and the end result reads like something that has been translated a million times over and is barley coherent.

[Anonymous No.17977366]

>>17977351
MLA has in text citation? My Law texts only have footnotes.

[Anonymous No.17977374]

>>17976932
Wait there's a female chad? Post more

[Anonymous No.17977379]

>As the good Bishop accurately states,

[Anonymous No.17977380]

I used MHRA style during my undergraduate and it was a pain in the fucking arse. Switching to Harvard made the process so much more enjoyable, I don't give a fuck if it's uglier.

[Anonymous No.17977381]

>>17977351
I too would rather use CMS than anything else, even if I prefer how APA cites journal articles. And I hate MLA now more for how they've formatted their guide than for the changes they made to their end citations. But I don't mind most in-text citations, and you can even use them in Chicago.

[Anonymous No.17977389]

>Hello, today I am talking about

[Anonymous No.17977399]

[Anonymous No.17977402]

>>17977334
Yes
I didn't fail though. Are you okay Professor? Are you going to cry?

[Anonymous No.17977404]

>>17977366
Traditionally. Sometimes professors or departments make changes to a citation style to fit their whims. I've seen APA get used for MLA style papers and vice versa. I once saw a Turabian/Chicago mashup that made no sense. In my limited experience, law schools seem particularly prone to this nonsense.

[Anonymous No.17977406]

>>17976895
>thats not how you cite a religious text, an angle is not a real person

[Anonymous No.17977421]

>>17977399
>We plan to do this before its due, on April FOURTH Two thousand and nine at 1300 weastern military time
Fucking kek

[Anonymous No.17977426]

>thats not how you cite a religious text, an angel is not a real person

[Anonymous No.17977431]

>>17977426
*angle

[Anonymous No.17977438]

>Now that I have conclusively disproved this specious notion, I will now move on to the main thrust of my argument, which is that...

[Anonymous No.17977443]

>>17977102
Medici expulsion of 1494

[Anonymous No.17977459]

>>17977324
Most of those automatic citation generators spit out consistently wrong results. They've gotten better, but you can still find the student who used the generator pretty quickly.

[Anonymous No.17977467]

>>17977443
In the year 1494 x happened, it was the conclusion of a long series of events which we will be looking at in this essay.

[Anonymous No.17977470]

>>17977459
I mean, you can still manually input information using those generators, I've been using easy bib for years and never had a problem with it

[Anonymous No.17977490]

>>17977467
based, might actually start it like this

[Anonymous No.17977495]

>know that the source manager is superior and will make my life easier
>cant be arsed to put in all those sources all the time
>after finishing the paper spend an entire day sorting out the sources
So this is why they say intellectuals suffer.

[Anonymous No.17977503]

>>17977374

[Anonymous No.17977510]

>"hey, anon, you're into writing and stuff, right? Could you look at my essay for me before we turn it in and tell me what you think?"
>me:sure, stacy, just email it over
>me:*inserts the essay into a plagiarism database under a different name, so she gets a zero and has to leave school
Dumb bitch

[Anonymous No.17977514]

>>17977490
It was a joke, thats the most generic way to start an essay on history imo.

[Anonymous No.17977520]

>>17977443
NOW THIS IS A STORY ALL ABOUT HOW
SOME FLORENTINE FAG GOT SICK AND KICKED OUT
AND I'D LIKE TO TAKE A MINUTE AND HELP YOU SEE
I'LL TELL YOU HOW THEY EXPELLED LORENZO DE MEDICI

[Anonymous No.17977521]

>>17977470
Manually inputted info does lead to better results. EasyBib used to spit out all caps results even then sometimes, but I don't think it does anymore. I've always just told writers to check the generator's results against the manual. But I could write common MLA, Chicago, and APA end citations freehand, so generators always seemed extraneous.

[Anonymous No.17977523]

>>17977510
fucking based

[Anonymous No.17977526]

>>17977510
>"hey, anon, you're into writing and stuff, right? Could you look at my essay for me before we turn it in and tell me what you think?"
>faggot:sure, stacy, just email it over
>spends an entire day correcting it
>Stacy gets an A, never talks to you again
And thats what really happened.

[Anonymous No.17977533]

>>17977510
L M A O

[Anonymous No.17977536]

>>17977443
Is this an expositive essay or do you need to argue something?

[Anonymous No.17977548]

>>17977495
>after finishing the paper spend an entire 90 minutes before the paper is due sorting out the sources
FTFY rookie.

[Anonymous No.17977547]

>>17977526
Always get the money up front.

[Anonymous No.17977554]

>>17977510
based

[Anonymous No.17977555]

>>17977324
The obsession with citation formats proves that professors are autistic.

[Anonymous No.17977573]

>>17977555
TRIPS CONFIRM
PROFESSORS ETERNALLY BTFO

[Anonymous No.17977627]

>>17977536
expositive essay, so I'm just going to cover the 3 main causes of their expulsion

[Anonymous No.17977640]

>>17977520
BASED
they expelled Piero t

[Anonymous No.17977680]

>I

[Anonymous No.17977684]

>>17977088
When I was a grad student in English I made decent money editing articles and essays for the dumbfuck science students. I knew nothing about the content but cleaned up the writing for them.

[Anonymous No.17977700]

>>17977160
Better hope tae fuck you're not my student, bucko.

[Anonymous No.17977707]

>>17977700
Do you teach at a Scottish uni??

[Anonymous No.17977709]

>>17976904
>>17976895
the definitive proof the brits are retarded is that they have to explain how they are going to explain things instead of just explaining them

[Anonymous No.17977716]

>>17977275
Very real. If you're not in some shithole uni they even send you the graded paper and you can highlight any plagiarized portions and where they were plagiarized from (although all student papers are anonymized) and they allow you ~5-15% plagiarism depending on the class/topic.

Knew a guy who got blackmailed after buying plagiarized essays where they threatened to publish all his works which they'd already submitted a bunch of times previous.

[Anonymous No.17977720]

>>17977228
Wow... what's it like wasting your time at such an awful institution/department? Fucking hell.

[Anonymous No.17977767]

>>17977237
And it's hard as fuck to get students to break this dumb habit in uni. The number of times I've been asked "how many paragraphs do you want, sir?" or "will I lose marks if I have a fourth body paragraph?"

Obviously, everyone on this enlightened chinese cartoon board is a Waldunesque genius that resents the constraints of academic writing, but spare a thought for the coal-faced instructors who have to wade through the shit.

[Anonymous No.17977838]

>>17977767
I'm with you, as a TA, they need to be disciplined with the iron fist. Only after they master form I will allow them to get creative.

[Anonymous No.17977844]

>>17977767
>resents the constraints of academic writing,
Academic writing need not be constrained. The five-paragraph-essay is for middle-schoolers and junior high who are learning about structure for the first time.

[Anonymous No.17977879]

>>17977767
so im allowed to have more than 5 paragraphs?

[Anonymous No.17977915]

>>17977767
Compounding this issue is the fact that most of the academy just substitutes another paper model in for the five-paragraph essay, so students rarely have to engage with the why and the how of their rhetorical decisions. The IMRaD, problem/solution, literature review, et al. are all just as bad as the five-paragraph essay when they're taught divorced from discussion on why these papers take the form they do. Even English majors who've broken free from the shackles of the five-paragraph don't get much farther than expanding the general framework to fit whatever page or word requirement they're given.

[Anonymous No.17977940]

>>17977844
There's some discussion among rhet/comp scholars on whether a prepackaged structure should be taught at all, but I suspect the reason for the five-paragraph essay is not so much about teaching a structure, but about the ease of grading fidelity to one.

[Anonymous No.17977947]

>>17977767
It doesn't help that the SAT, ACT, and even GRE essay portions all require that model.

[Anonymous No.17977976]

>>17977275
There are free plagiarism checkers on Google. I have used them previously just to find the source of a quote posted on /lit/. In Uni typically 20% of my papers show as plagiarized due to quotes and citations but you can turn that off.

[Anonymous No.17978042]

Friend of mine basically cheats on every assignment. We have similar grades except I rarely cheat, especially not for course work that related to my major. Idk how to feel about it, like this guy really brags about getting A's and basically is cheating his way through college. He just sits on his ass all day and sends his work to indians or whatever to do it, and when he has tests or exams he cheats on them to. It really puts me off in a weird way.

[Anonymous No.17978060]

>>17977940
That's a pretty old discussion. When I was tutoring writing 15 years ago there was discussion about how our standard 'intro, body, conclusion' structure was typical of western enlightenment tradition but ignored other cultures where you would take more circuitous routes and tangential approaches.

I'm fine with another approach if the person using it is good, but the vast majority of undergraduates - even in elite universities - are not good writers, and by-and-large they need the externally imposed structure to be able to communicate even halfway effectively.

I might not like using an iron fist, but I sympathize with >>17977838 pretty strongly.

[Anonymous No.17978067]

>>17978042
your friend is based and you are spooked, college is a racket

[Anonymous No.17978076]

>>17978042
Ultimately the person he is cheating is himself. He is paying tens of thousands of dollars to go to a university, so that he can pay others thousands of dollars to do his work. At the end of the day he'll have a degree and no education.

Don't concern yourself with him, anon. The real value in an education is not in the piece of parchment you get at your commencement ceremony; it is intrinsic to the education itself.

[Anonymous No.17978080]

>>17977520
Based, use this anon pls

[Anonymous No.17978138]

>>17978076
The education isn't important. The degree is.

[Anonymous No.17978147]

>Hello my name is Timmy. In this essay you are reading I will show you that _______. Here is the essay.

[Anonymous No.17978151]

>>17978147
Literally me, once upon a time :)

[Anonymous No.17978155]

>>17978060
The majority of people in the academy aren't good writers: graduates, instructors, administrators, etc.

[Anonymous No.17978157]

>>17976895
>I feel
>I think

[Anonymous No.17978158]

>>17978138
This is some serious smoothbrain thinking right here.

Tell me though, anon; if the education isn't important, then why are you bothering to post on this anonymous image board? There's no material gains to be had here.

[Anonymous No.17978164]

>>17978155
Fair enough.

[Anonymous No.17978182]

>>17977112
Lol horace

"Idice, my dear, how your pubes have grown in and I wish to plow you, tell your mother to fuck off and let me bang, your bush is a sprout no more, it is a sapling ready to be bent over as a bow and flung"

[Anonymous No.17978195]

>>17978042
Your friend is smart. Joe Biden was expelled for plagiarism. Winners cheat.

[Anonymous No.17978216]

>>17978158
>There's no material gains to be had here.
There isn't regardless of my stance, which has less to do with how I feel personally than it does with how I think our culture treats education. I would prefer that it value education, but at every turn, it appears that what's truly important is the marker of prestige.

[Anonymous No.17978244]

>>17978158
not >>17978138 , but in all fairness I think he's referring to the "education" provided by modern academic institutions, not education in general.
there's at least some truth to that (although it's dependent on the subject).

[Anonymous No.17978246]

>>17978158
The education doesn't teach anything until you are a graduate slave working for nothing. College is a shit test to see if you will suck your bosses cock. It's deeply corrupt.

[Anonymous No.17978263]

>>17978164
I suppose I was being unnecessarily curt there, but writing is hard, good writing exponentially harder (and endlessly arguable). My time in the academy, if nothing else, has shown me that we could all stand to be kinder to those penning bad work, not because we should accept bad work, but because the tendency to produce it is so widespread.

[Anonymous No.17978276]

>>17978246
Then why not turn the tables on them and learn things anyways? Insisting that your years at university are a scam where you only learn how to suck cock seems a waste of time. Even if that's what college is designed as (to be fair, the majority of so-called universities in the US probably are little better), what's to stop you from reading and discussing the great works while there anyways?

[Anonymous No.17978297]

>>17978158
You're no better.
If knowledge is the object of institutional education then it would only serve the aristocracy. The working/middle classes only view the knowledge as a utilitarian prerequisite ultimately to self preservation/propagation. This sentiment informs the institution in turn which results in subpar education which fulfills the role of a sort of vocational training center for repetitive pattern interactions than knowledge for the sake of personal enlightenment, although you are free to make the most of it etc.

[Anonymous No.17978334]

>>17978297
I generally agree with your points about the working/middle classes, but I question this:
>If knowledge is the object of institutional education then it would only serve the aristocracy.
Why would this be the case? Must institutions solely serve the aristocracy and nothing else? Can't they do multiple things?

[Anonymous No.17978354]

>>17978195
To be fair Joe Biden can't remember what he had for breakfast this morning

[Anonymous No.17978392]

>it is clear that

[Anonymous No.17978405]

>Here we see that

[Anonymous No.17978442]

>>17978334
It is my personal experience, having interacted with both cases, that this is only coincidental. The essence of the culture of education, more blatant in second grade institutions, is cynical academics going through the motions of vocational trainers. The fatter the paycheck the less incentive there is for them to withhold their wealth of knowledge and experience, offer personal input that could genuinely benefit undergrads, which would otherwise pose as inconvenience during their cushy tenure. You can extrapolate the implications there, but to answer your question
>TL;DR: Yes. They can do multiple things , although the incentive is not inherent to the institutional process.

[Anonymous No.17978445]

>According to the scholar X: "Quote" (X 420). X continues, saying "Another Quote" (X 420-421).

[Anonymous No.17978453]

I was literally taught to write the shit ITT.

[Anonymous No.17978458]

>>17977526
Almost certainly

[Anonymous No.17978472]

>>17978442
I suppose I'll just continue to suggest that undergrads make the best of those coincidental opportunities then. I was lucky enough to have a number of professors who were (1) learned, and (2) willing and happy to share knowledge, experience, etc with me, even if they didn't have any institutional incentive to do so.

[Anonymous No.17978524]

>>17978445
If you are doing corrections check the sources, they mostly just take shit from the first page or even Abstract and call it a day.
>cf.

[Anonymous No.17978531]

>>17978445
>>17978524
literally me

[Anonymous No.17978541]

>This essay begins with general reflections about the need, presupposition, basic principles, etc. of philosophy. It is a fault in them that they are general reflections, but they are occasioned by the fact that presupposition, principles, and such like forms still adorn the entrance to philosophy with their cobwebs. So, up to a point it is still necessary to deal with them until the day comes when from beginning to end it is philosophy itself whose voice will be heard. Some of the more interesting of these topics will be more extensively treated elsewhere.

[Anonymous No.17978566]

>It is common knowledge that
>Most experts in the field agree that
>relevant data from a myriad of other relevant studies suggest that

[Anonymous No.17978568]

>>17978541
>>This essay begins with general reflections about the need, presupposition, basic principles, etc. of philosophy. It is a fault in them that they are general reflections (citation needed), but they are occasioned by the fact that presupposition, principles, and such like forms still adorn the entrance to philosophy with their cobwebs. (citation needed) So, up to a point it is still necessary to deal with them until the day comes when from beginning to end it is philosophy itself whose voice will be heard. (citation needed) Some of the more interesting of these topics will be more extensively treated elsewhere.
I will give that a C

[Anonymous No.17978578]

>It is common knowledge that
>Most experts in the field agree that
>relevant data from a myriad of other studies suggest that

[Anonymous No.17978581]

>>17978524
>not frantically flicking through the book to find a random quote a hundred pages in which vaguely fits with whatever point you're making
NGMI

[Anonymous No.17978594]

Regarding the metadiscursive forms discussed in this thread, and considering the general environment surrounding essay writing in a scholastic setting today, when we stop to consider the implciations of these techniques, we are forced to inquire about certain inherent limitations within the structure of these issues at large, which is why I first will turn your attention towards an avenue, which will quickly bear fruit, leading to a further extrapolation which I will consider below, after which I will conclude in

[Anonymous No.17978601]

>>17978524
I was assigned to take 350000 words of page-by-page undergraduate literary commentary and make it fit for publication, at least half of those students had nothing left but their source quotes once I got rid of cancerous citation sandwiches. Please DO NOT do this people, it is nothing but tedious for anyone reading it

[Anonymous No.17978602]

>citing the professor

[Anonymous No.17978612]

TOMORROW I'LL

[Anonymous No.17978625]

>>17978612
For sale: one conclusion, never used

[Anonymous No.17978628]

>>17976895
>Therefore, according to the evidence I have presented, it would be absurd to believe anything other than my thesis.

[Anonymous No.17978656]

>>17977467
Based and kinopilled

[Anonymous No.17978666]

>>17977510
Sigma move

[Anonymous No.17978679]

>>17978625

[Anonymous No.17978684]

>>17977399
Unironically brilliant, Id love to be a teacher working with these kids

[Anonymous No.17978729]

>>17976932
Extremely based because it implies you write every day

[Anonymous No.17978732]

>>17976895
tie the hog.

[Anonymous No.17978735]

>"If you're reading this it means I must be dead"
easy A

[Anonymous No.17978765]

>>17978602
>citing the course book

[Anonymous No.17978788]

>>17978765
>citing your previous essays

[Anonymous No.17978800]

>>17978788
>citing your future essays

[Anonymous No.17978816]

>>17978800
>mixing in wrong citations to test the professor and bringing it up in the discussion

[Anonymous No.17978827]

>>17978800
>"I will go further into this in the future"

[Anonymous No.17978829]

>>17978601
idk what you mean

[Anonymous No.17978836]

>>17978816
>Not posting a Chad with this

[Anonymous No.17978840]

>>17978816
>citing a letter from the professors mom

[Anonymous No.17978855]

>>17978836
Strelok is a chad.

[Anonymous No.17978866]

>>17978581
if you check the back, you can find where a quote or statement is with a single word. I think it's called a glossary.

[Anonymous No.17978871]

My professor said you should always begin your essay with "This essay argues that...", so /lit/ BTFO

[Anonymous No.17978873]

>>17978866
Oops. I meant index.

[Anonymous No.17978890]

>>17977275
all 'homework'is an exercise in plagiarism even moreso in college

[Anonymous No.17978920]

>>17978666
sigma balls satan

[Anonymous No.17978935]

>It is now readily apparent to the reader that the above conclusion is irrefutable. Any belief to the contrary is an indictment on your own intelligence.

[Anonymous No.17978959]

>Shh! The Essay is starting!

[Anonymous No.17978974]

>>17978959
kek

[Anonymous No.17978994]

>>17977297
I'm behind the idea that they are Godless monsters perpetuating a cycle that keeps people from achieving harmony.

We'll see what happens in 2029.

[Anonymous No.17979033]

>>17977399
I remember my buddy wrote an essay about not wasting that he titled; "No Baby Seal Should Go Unclubbed." It was this good.

[Anonymous No.17979137]

>>17977399
This is amazing. Please tell me where it is from.

[Anonymous No.17979139]

>>17978959
KEK

[Anonymous No.17979192]

> ; and

[Anonymous No.17979253]

>>17977033
th'Fuck? I got marked down routinely for not doing that shit. They would say in the response to my essay that I should be using my intro to outline exactly what I'm going to do. I always thought it was a bullshitty filler technique.

[Anonymous No.17979258]

>>17979192
Use of the word "rush" too closely in succession. Ew. Never repeat words like that unless it is unavoidable, it just reads poorls.

[Anonymous No.17979262]

>>17977399
>Don't answer that, it's a rhetorical question

[Anonymous No.17979278]

>>17976895
>not using pluralis majestatis baiting the reader into thinking you are holding his hand while in reality you consider yourself too noble for the singular case

[Anonymous No.17979298]

>>17977520
lol'd

[Anonymous No.17979336]

>>17979258
Pascal says you're a fag.

[Anonymous No.17979416]

>>17979258
Repetition can serve many different rhetorical aims. Sure, accidental repetition should be built upon or done away with in revision, but there's almost a whole class of devices that employ strategically repeating a word or phrase.

[Anonymous No.17979448]

>>17978800
>citing your own dreams, divinations and consultations of the I Ching

[Anonymous No.17979492]

>>17978866
pussy move

[Anonymous No.17979503]

>asked for 5 paragraphs, 2-3 pages
>write 3-4

fuck you, sinful whale sensei. i won’t rip my fucking paragraphs in half and ruin what sense they have just to sate your autism.

[Anonymous No.17979517]

>thesis: I hate writing
>supporting argument: I hate writing g
>supporting argument: I hate writing
>supporting argument: I hate writing
>conclusion: This is why I hate writing

[Anonymous No.17979523]

>>17979448
Based and oriental alchemist pilled

[Anonymous No.17979551]

>I'd like to start off by thanking the loan companies for giving me $250,000.

[Anonymous No.17979572]

>>17976895
>In this essay, we will

[Anonymous No.17979587]

>HEAR YE, HEAR YE!

[Anonymous No.17979601]

>>17976895
>>17976904
>>17976909
>>17976913
I used to write normally but my teacher gave extra points for these phrases

[Anonymous No.17979626]

>>17978354
He was already vp anon. Cheating and lying is the key to success.

[Anonymous No.17979632]

>>17979572
>After reading this essay, you will have read

[Anonymous No.17979652]

>>17977228
Is anyone else worried about this trend? I think anyone that went to college since the proliferation of google is aware of this methodical replication process. Grading standards have dropped off a cliff as student intellect has dropped but colleges being run like a business are incentivized to be lenient and keep the parents happy writing checks. So so many of my peers and especially ESL students copied assignments and cheated on tests.

I guess it all shakes out in the job market giving those that know the material an advantage (theoretically) but I think Harold Bloom was onto something with Coddling of the American mind and it's only continued downwards.

[Anonymous No.17979691]

>>17979652
>Harold Bloom was onto something with Coddling of the American mind
You're thinking of "The Closing of the American Mind by *Allan* Bloom. "The Coddling of the American Mind" was by Haidt and Lukianoff.

Honestly though you can go back to Fussell's criticisms about the rise of fake universities in the 80s to see the moment when the trend really took off from a trickle to a deluge.

[Anonymous No.17979711]

>>17979632
BASED

[Anonymous No.17979743]

>>17979691
Ah you're right, my mistake. I'm not familiar with Fussell, what did he have to say.

[Anonymous No.17979749]

>>17976895
>Write essay
>Deviate ever so slightly from the academic student style
>proffesor writes a remark telling me not to do that
Uh yeah fuck academics. Stuck-up culturally illiterate pricks.

[Anonymous No.17979767]

>>17976895
>I propound herein that

[Anonymous No.17979778]

>>17977317
I like this

[Anonymous No.17979785]

>>17979749
professors grading 50-200 papers for one class aren't interested in your cute, creative feats, faggot. Go to a small liberal arts school if that's the way you want to write your papers, I bet you're in a community college or state school.

[Anonymous No.17979797]

>>17978060
I fucking hate the fact that most people are garbage tier writers. Just fucking clear state the ideas you want to communicate! It's not hard! Even listening to the average pleb can be frustrating because so much of their communication is through gesticulation and repeating vaguely related phrases to communicate an impression and just assuming the listener can connect the dots.

[Anonymous No.17979823]

>>17979743
>I'm not familiar with Fussell, what did he have to say.
Basically that small teaching colleges and vocational schools decided to start calling themselves 'universities' and building up fake prestige to get class conscious insecure people to send their children to them, which resulted in more and more money going towards those so-called universities and a feedback loop in which the schools kept doing more and more pseudo-academic work to keep getting more and more dollars from students and parents. He basically said that 'university' education outside of elite schools was a scam peddled to insecure boomers. He wasn't wrong.

Terry Caesar's "Conspiring With Forms" gets at a bunch of this too, though it isn't particularly well written (he's an embittered professor at a second-rate 'university,' but judging by his prose he belongs there even though he also makes good points).

[Anonymous No.17979895]

>>17977336
>As Aristotle (Onassis, 1993) makes clear,

[Anonymous No.17979928]

>>17977443
Idk start with a cool story about Savaronola or whatever his name was

[Anonymous No.17979946]

>That philosophy died yesterday, since Hegel or Marx, Nietzsche, or Heidegger--and philosophy should still wander toward the meaning of its death--or that it has always lived knowing itself to be dying (as is silently confessed in the shadow of the very discourse which declared philosophia perennis); that philosophy died one day, within history, or that it has always fed on its own agony, on the violent way it opens history by opposing itself to non philosophy, which is its past and its concern, its death and wellspring; that beyond the death, or dying nature, of philosophy, perhaps even because of it, thought still has a future, or even, as is said today, is still entirely to come because of what philosophy has held in store; or, more strangely still, that the future itself has a future--all these are unanswerable questions.

[Anonymous No.17979955]

>It is often said that
>Since the beginning of time
>One of the longstanding questions
>Mankind has always

[Anonymous No.17979963]

>>17977443
>Throughout history the expulsion of peoples was a common occurence, the jews for instance have been expelled out of 109 different nations, most recently the jews were expelled from Jujimufu's youtube channel. But the 1494 expulsion of the Medici in Florence is a unique case: ...

[Anonymous No.17980039]

>>17976895
>Before starting this essay i would like to thank the sponsor of this essay, RAID: Shadow Legends.

[Anonymous No.17980050]

>>17979797
Checked

[Anonymous No.17980052]

>>17980039
kek

[Anonymous No.17980060]

>>17977088
Good writing in law and philosophy is about being logical not pretty. If your professors can’t understand what you’re trying to say in first reading you can be deducted points if the professors is especially impatient.

[Anonymous No.17980082]

>>17980039
>and before we get started just wanted to remind you guys to SMASH that like button, hit subscribe and tap the bell icon so you never miss a new thesis! With that said, let's get into Hegel's lectures on the philosophy of history.

[Anonymous No.17980089]

>>17979572
Ever since reading Industrial society and its future I unironically have to restrain myself from referring to myself as "we", it just goes so well of the tongue.

[Anonymous No.17980243]

>>17979749
There is a formula to academic writing and you can do whatever you want as long as its logical and not convoluted.

[Anonymous No.17980449]

>>17979785
You are such a stuck-in-the-mud, asskissing, system-cock-sucking bitch.

[Anonymous No.17980535]

>>17980449
you're deluded

[Anonymous No.17980543]

I was trained to never use that or "in conclusion"

[Anonymous No.17980545]

>>17980535
not him but you are cringe teebeeaych

[Anonymous No.17980650]

>>17977228
started from the bottom
now we still at the bottom
you and me both, anon