#Paper Help writing

[wizard0rbs]

when the academic article is so good it has you giggling and kicking your feet

#im sitting in my uni library trying really hard not to jump around with joy #this article is soo fascinating and has so many interesting points ugh #also itll be very helpful for a paper im writing so double yay #its 'the trick of the runes in the husband's message' by john d. niles btw and its available on jstor #in case anyone is interested #OE studies #aca #studyblr

[novelconcepts]

The defintion of hell is knowing a show is incredibly well-received in its first season, but if people don’t become machines churning out tweets, content, and rewatching 24/7, there’s no likelihood it’ll get a chance to tell its whole story. This shit is madness. Shows in different genres shouldn’t have to pit-battle for dominance. First seasons are MEANT to be baselines establishing worlds and characters, not complete storylines. The idea that this golden age of television has turned into “get it done in one or get out” is revolting.

#the sandman #paper girls #some of the hot takes on Twitter are breaking me #‘why don’t we know the whole story? it’s bad writing if you don’t have a complete story in the first season’ girl WHAT since WHEN #how many excellent shows were weak as fuck in S1?? and here we’re getting shows with incredible first seasons fighting for their lives #like fuckin Christ dude the idea of long form storytelling is allowing your story time and space to spread out #otherwise we would only make movies #i am so sick of this edge of my seat fear that any new show I fall in love with will get axed because the higher powers don’t care about art #this has to be a bubble right? this has to pop at some point and go back to shows valued on what they are #and don’t even get me started on creators having to beg for good reviews to balance out review-bombing from shitheads #if every one star review is clearly bigoted from the comments? why is anyone taking them into account?? #why is there no way to manage this shit aside from creators being like ‘please help us”’

[unrelatedwaffle]

I'm still thinking about hbomberguy's Plagiarism video and I think there's still going to be a lot of student plagiarism because...writing based on synthesizing info from multiple sources is tough, and rephrasing someone's entire sentence structure FEELS like "writing in your own words" enough that it's not obvious to beginners how blatant it is.

if you struggle with writing research papers, often procrastinate and then scramble to assemble a paper from a single source, you are setting yourself up for likely plagiarism. here are some real tips for avoiding this and getting better at academic writing. these are a short version of sonke ahrens's great book on the Zettelkasten method, How to Take Smart Notes (which i recommend reading, but it is one of those Books That Could Have Been a Blog Post, as If Books Could Kill would say, and the full Zettelkasten method is probably overkill for most people).

1. Take notes on what the texts make you think while you read, with a pen and paper, in your own words. These are not summary notes, but "this section reminds me of that one episode of the simpsons" or "i don't think it's true that willpower is finite..." these are your own thoughts and feelings

2. When you're completely done with an article or book chapter, start a note file on the computer with the proper citation at the top and write a 1-2 sentence summary of the content of what you just read. Without looking at the text. Yes, this is hard!!

3. Go through your personal notes from step 1 and see if anything there is a Big General Idea or theme. It may take reading a few articles or stepping away/thinking in the shower before these emerge. "Hmm I'm noticing that a lot of societies have similar rituals about food and gratefulness, I wonder if it's a superstitious way to ensure future abundance?" Elaborate on that in a separate note.

4. You can weave the notes from Step 3 into a thesis statement with supporting arguments properly summarized and supported with info from Step 1.

#hbomberguy #plagiarism #writing advice #zettelkasten #sonke ahrens #research papers #writing help #procrastination

[topaziraphale]

"Stop saying Crowley won't help Aziraphale in S3 he'd go back to him in a HEARTBEAT and nothing would stop him" I get it no one likes the idea of Crowley being bitter after what happened for a long period of time but like can we at least acknowledge that he's currently going through probably the most emotional pain in his life since falling? Can we agree that he's opened his heart entirely - something you couldn't pay him to do unless the world is literally ending and he's desperate - to Aziraphale, and got shot down? Can we understand that he did it AGAIN only to lose Aziraphale again? Not that what Aziraphale did isn't without Crowley's own shortcomings (hiding the truth of Heaven's cruelty from him) but like,,,,

The appeal here isn't Scorned Crowley Doesn't Love Aziraphale Anymore, or Never Wants To Help Him Again, the appeal here is Crowley learning enough self respect to not just walk back right to Aziraphale like nothing happened after Aziraphale has had a pattern of consistently refusing him. Going years ping-ponging between "We're not friends I don't even know him" to "That's what friends are for right?" and "We're friends, why would you even say anything?" and "Friends? We're not friends. We are an angel and a demon!"

Like I get it, Crowley is a heartbreakingly forgiving person. Of course he's gonna forgive Aziraphale, I'll be surprised if he didn't forgive him by the time he walked out the bookshop door, but gdi he could at least grant himself the luxury of being at least a little irritated for longer than however long it takes to make a globe and some books float and angrily cry out to God in his flat. But due to the change of pace and dynamic that is establishing part of the conflict for Season 3, I just really like the idea of him for ONCE prioritizing himself and being like "Okay, fine. We'll get back at it when you're ready, then," instead of just taking Aziraphale back like his words and actions meant nothing to him, when clearly they have an effect on him.

What is Aziraphale going to learn if Crowley just accepts what he did so quickly, like he always has the entire time they've been friends? Idk maybe I'm just projecting too much darkness on their dynamic but I mean, if the pattern of Aziraphale pushing Crowley away/disrespecting him one day and then being fine with his friendship the next + Crowley never stopping to be like "Hey, that's not cool, at least give me a little credit" or smth was fine all along and will continue to be fine in the future, then why, after 6,000 years of being friends and loving this demon, can Aziraphale still not accept that Crowley is just fine the way he is, and instead got excited to promote him to an angel in a heartbeat once the opportunity presented itself? You can't blame all of it on Heaven when Aziraphale has demonstrated his free will/defiance to Heaven so many times. Or, I don't know, I guess maybe we can? Maybe I'm just craving too much angst to the point where I'm letting it cloud my analysis of canon. Idk.

#derpy speaks #good omens #good omens 2 #no i dont think crowley is gonna ever hate aziraphale for what happened but he's allowed to be angry #he's allowed to be done with it all. he's allowed to be exhausted. just look at his face when he drives away. #meh. idk. but i dont know how i'll feel if crowley just INSTANTLY accepts aziraphale back in a situation involving #idk - ''hey help me stop the new apocalypse'' #at least. without like. SOME pushback? it can even be something small like ''are you SURE you want ME to help you? do you really need me?'' #doesnt have to be a straight refusal but i'd like SOME kind of action to show that crowley is putting his foot down for once #he deserves that self respect #do NOT reply saying that im insinuating that aziraphale is actively malicious or doing it on purpose. #everything he has done up until now is his own complicated response to all the trauma and guilt he's been through #but despite that crowley is STILL allowed to be upset... it's messy. i can write a whole paper about how this whole thing #is just unfortunate on both ends. again. we didnt get queerbaited we got communication baited 😭 #but help me out here. am i just too fandom-brained to have these expectations from the story? #is there something obvious im missing that is making me sound like a complete asshole here? do i need to get my head out of the gutter? #someone please explain it to me if so because whatever it is‚ i can't find it #not queued

[ahxiang]

with the focus on the revolving door again in ep 16, i just want to say a little smth abt the door as an autistic person myself.

i know some ppl are frustrated with wyw's difficulty in using the door, saying it infantilizes her and that "she's a 27 year old lawyer, she's seen a revolving door before, she knows how they work." but the thing is, it's not abt her being familiar with revolving doors at all. at least not in the way you think. it's not "oh look at this lady, she doesn't understand this door bc she's autistic." it's a sensory issue.

autism affects our senses and the way we process them. what many allistics don’t understand about autism is that we’re not just overly sensitive to sounds and bright lights. we can be underly (is that a word??) sensitive to stimulus as well and have a hard time controlling our senses. this includes all seven senses. that right, seven. there’s the five you know, but also two you probably don’t: the vestibular sense and proprioception. these two have to do with body awareness, balance, and spatial orientation. that’s why many of us walk “weirdly” (if i ever catch you saying someone walks weirdly i am coming into your house and punching you in the face) or are clumsy. we have issues with our bodies in relation to the world around us and often have a hard time balancing. i walk into walls all the time and miscalculate and walk into doorways instead of through them. 

so it’s not that wyw doesn’t understand the social concept of a revolving door, but that they’re difficult to navigate through due to her vestibular and proprioceptive sensory issues. i myself have a hard time with revolving doors! so pls no more “this makes her look dumb” or “this is so unrealistic”. if wyw is bad representation and is stupid for having problems with a revolving door, then i’m an unrealistically stupid autistic that walks into walls.

#extraordinary attorney woo #eaw #sorry for the mini essay everything i write turns into a paper absjs also the bolding is so that it's easier to read for neurodivergents <3 #also i'm not gonna lie at first my internalized ableism took over and i was hard on wyw thinking she was making us look bad and stupid #and then i realized that *i* literally struggle with revolving doors and would have to get my dad to help me get through when i was younger #this show has honestly challenged my own internalized ableism and concept of what is and isn't acceptable autism symptoms to show #and y'know what? fuck the idea that there's a point where you're too visibly autistic! this show has made me love myself so much more #and has helped me through issues i didn't even realize i had! i didn't realize how much ableism i had internalized and held onto #it wasn't until i saw wyw do things that i had hated or berated myself for that i realized i was being too hard on myself #if i loved wyw then i had to love myself too! and on top of that seeing jun ho love her for who she was made me love myself all the more #i just really love this show flaws and all #tea talks #eaw autism science #1k

[anna-scribbles]

adrien and marinette😭❤️‼️

#I have so much homework still to do tonight. I have to write a ten page paper by 9am. help. #ml #anna rambles

[ohmaerieme]

rambling for a bit here about my “luigi gains some of dimentio’s mannerisms as a result of fusing into super dimentio” concept, because im fucking insane and need you all to understand my agony

ok so after writing all that this accidentally turned into like a kind of oneshot/drabble of 309 words. ur welcome everyone

he doesn’t even notice at first. he acts as if he’s always had these quirks, never notices anything out of the ordinary. but everyone else does. everyone else notices how his laughs now have a tilt to them it didn’t have before, how he poises his hands to his sides differently now, how he snaps his fingers before a battle.

what he does notice, is everyone’s stares when it happens- not that he knows what it is, yet. but most of all, he notices mario. and how he looks both horrified and sad in the strangest of moments, after telling a joke, or waiting in line at the store, or journeying off to fight bowser as their routine slowly resumes to normal.

and it’s the strangest thing that clues him to what’s been going on, that his friends have been dancing around. he’s making spaghetti with mario in the kitchen, a simple meal for a simple day- and the spices are on the counter behind him, so when his brother asks him so simply to reach behind him and grab some oregano-

his nearly pulls his arm out of his socket, he’s sure, from how fast he spun it backwards without even turning his head. and in his mind then, as he flinches his arm back with a hiss of pain, he realizes the error, then; a single stray thought in his head that said: “aren’t my hands supposed to float?”

the connection is easy, after that. and mario sits him down and turns off the stove and pulls their chairs closer together, so that their shoulders bump as they sit. and they rest their heads on eachother, and wish in complete silence that things weren’t the way they were, that maybe he could have left the end of all worlds in tact.

#hey. #did you know im insane abt super paper mario. #i dont think you did #luigi will actually never make me not miserable #when i think about all the SHIT he went through #mans got brainwashed TWICE #he got USED as a tool to end EVERYTHING IN EXISTENCE #and (in my brain) even though it didnt work #he still has something he cant even help lingering with him #/// #super paper mario #spm #spm spoilers #super paper mario spoilers #spm fanfic #super paper mario fanfic #spm writing #super paper mario writing #brainwashing #brainwashing tw #brainwashing cw #mae writing #ohmaerieme

[illuminatingsceadugenga]

mmmmrgghh something something mei nianqing's two cups of water xie lians two starving men and hua chengs cutting off pieces of yourself to give to others

mei nianqing asks "who do you save when you cannot save everyone?"

and xie lian asks "what happens afterwards? what if they want more? what if you have enough to save them, but not enough to satisfy them?"

and hua cheng asks "do they deserve it? is your suffering worth their ingratitude?"

#tgcf #illuspeaks #xie lian #hua cheng #mei nianqing #i really want to write an analysis on these 3 scenarios but im having a hard time putting my thoughts to paper #although the books do an excellent job building them up so maybe its not needed? #but i love how all three questions are shaped by the askers experiences #but xie lian and hua chengs naturally go a step further than mnqs #what happens after youve helped them?

[twerkbook]

so I’ve taken up doing college work for extra money.

I dropped out of college 100 credits in to work in retail.

I’m an autistic former valedictorian and can get an A on any 100-200 level assignment

Send me a message if you need help.

#college #final exams #tutor #math help #writing help #essay writing #help #research #paper

[getmenaced]

Gale. Me-yoww!! I havent been able to draw anything cool lately so this is all you get. Why is his butt so much perkier in game than all the other boys? It seems like they all use the same body model but Gale is juicier. Did they do this for Me? Check it out.. Mwah mwah 😘

#bg3 #bg3 gale #gale of waterdeep #my art #seriously you can find ass comparisons and hes like way thicker than both wyll and the pale hag. i think it might be his underwear? #also my ass is not writing that damn paper.. i have seven and a half hours left. help pleaee soemone

[spudangle]

This is completely trivial, especially since the bedchamber—or camp, or whatever it should be classified as—at the Elfsong Tavern is designed like that for the sake of gameplay and probably not so much for the sake interior 'design-realism' (whatever that means).

But

Since the bedchamber kind of has the appearance of a dormitory for travelers, it would probably have made more sense if the beds were alcove beds. Especially when assuming that the bedchamber isn't always occupied by an entire gang of people who know each other, and even then some more privacy would probably still have been nice.

I generally feel like fantasy games and other types of fantasy stories should utilize alcove beds more often. Especially when the fantasy world has this medieval, renaissance feeling to it. It's the olden times gosh darn it and people need to keep warm! Alcove beds do just that! AND they look cozy as hell!!

Just like people like to slap corsets on everything in historical fantasy settings we should have alcove beds everywhere and box beds too!!!

What i'm saying is that i'd like it if architecture, and interiors in video games where designed to emit the same sense of functionality as real world architecture and interiors.

PLEASE!!! THEY'RE SO UNDERRATED!!!

#my own personal trash #text #BG3 #Baldur's Gate 3 #baldur's gate 3 headcanons #headcanons #interior design #this is so pointless #but i genuinely think about these types of things so often #functionality of furniture is so important and it really helps with selling the environment #if youre reading this and you agree with me then please tell me that im not crazy #welp back to writing my exam paper #my writing

[millipedegf]

handed in my anthropology paper yesterday . had to make some quick corrections with pen to the quotes cause i kinda fucked up consistency wise but whatever. it is what it is

#🥩 #like i think its okay ? i don't think it's a Bad paper . im just always nervous turning in the first one #don't think i shit the bed at any rate . but i was also super stressed writing it so i doubt that helped

[worflesbian]

im about to fall asleep but first of all are there any deanna scholars who can tell me what her qualifications are namely does she have a PhD or would it be in character for her to pursue one? cause I feel like what with her not wearing uniform til tng s7 she's not really counted among the science blues but psychology is a science right? so she's a scientist? part of me feels like she was relegated out of the scientist role due to sexism but then also part of me feels like focusing on being a practicing counselor rather than research scientist is like a career choice that rejects elitism and could be an important character point. also judging by how Ezri was written there's a precedent for trek writers having a tenuous grasp of what a counselor actually does sometimes so.

#does this character reject societal notions of what success should look like (published papers etc). in favour of working directly with peop #or did the writers think a woman should help people with their feelings without showing her do things like write a thesis on how feelings w #if anyone has information. lore. beta canon. please let me know! #ghitlhpu'wij #deanna

[thebirdandhersong]

I'm in the 1.5 weeks of pre-finals hell (or at least pre-finals torture chamber) right now, so I will still be somewhat scarce on this website, or ought to be anyhow…. this feels like midterms round 2 :')

#2 major presentations 2 long papers 1 major writing assignment all due within four dayssss God help me!! #anyway it will be okay all SHALL be well i just need to do the work before me faithfully and carefully #but yeah if you see me on this site at all i should not be here i should be chugging away!

[aoral]

[og poll here]

c!tubbo and q!tubbo…er Idk

hmm considering c!tubbo was a soldier...but q!tubbo fought in purgatory twice. I'm not sure.

-- a good ol' sword vs killjoy trigger happy chainsaw!

Okay new point maybe c!tubbo? considering q!tubbo fought more with. enchanted weapons, having a much different 'environment' due to the server being modded (meta aspect) it would be less common for him to fight without any weapons. c!tubbo otherwise being in a earlier era of Minecraft it would make sense with a bit less...advanced weapons.

-- it really depends on when did the string of sensibility snap

do you think c!tubbo fought back by instincts when every weapon he owned and every amour he had was confiscated? do you think q!tubbo knawed on flesh and wood and snapped at everyone and everything in his line of sight? Do you think they go feral once in a while, a break from the calm skies and rainbows, to the plummeting rainstorms and bolting lightnings? Do you think they sometimes stare at the escape exit and say "shit, this is escalating" in their mind?

-- I just realized that the poll is asking hand-to-hand I forgot and I only realized after I wrote the following chunk of words lol

c!tubbo counts his steps on taking the queen, he makes the most use of the pawns, the knights, the bishops and the rooks, he counts on how to check, how to queen, to restrain the opponent from winning. He counts on checkmate, on how many blocks he needs to promote the pawn, on taking steps back and forth. What makes him a good fighter is not his strength but his mind of winning.

q!tubbo fights like there is no tomorrow, he sinks into the bloodlust and fights like desperation itself, like being hanged forward by the primal urges to kill. He snaps because if he doesn't, if he doesn't give his all with no reservations he knows he will not win, he needs everything to win the fight so he does not forfeit to enemies, his bravery shines among other traits.

-- but just hand-to-hand fights? I'd say they will be evenly matched.

#tubbo #qsmp tubbo #dsmp tubbo #eeee I do not know what happened to me but I did it !! #help #I don't know :( #it's fun to write thougj #I spashed paper with water accidentally as I type this #what.

[willowcrowned]

leading myself to the altar as the sacrificial lamb (person that dies during finals so all exams are cancelled)

#i'm still mostly joking about this. but also i'm losing it #(< did multivariate analysis and found that avg temp had a much stronger positive effect than precipitation #BUT also did variance partitioning and found that precipitation explains way more variance than avg temp #and doesn't understand what that means!!!!!!) #this is a cry for help fyi. if someone understands this pleaase explain it to me #this paper is due at 11:55PM thursday and i don't even understand the data i've gotten enough to write the discussion!!! #willow’s wastebin tagxon