this task is so difficult.
i have to keep all of the chicago and strunk/white rules in mind. i also have to think about the reader and what may be vague, and add the necessary footnotes.
it's like i have to read while constantly asking myself, ``is this perfect?''
it drives an ocd person like me mad!
i have to keep all of the chicago and strunk/white rules in mind. i also have to think about the reader and what may be vague, and add the necessary footnotes.
it's like i have to read while constantly asking myself, ``is this perfect?''
it drives an ocd person like me mad!
this is handy (if you're a nerd and enjoy citing the rules like me):
http://www.tcnj.edu/~penny/cmsc485/strunk_summary.html
http://www.tcnj.edu/~penny/cmsc485/strunk_summary.html
I kind of love writing. I've been typing up a very extensive outline for a paper I need to work on over the weekend and I'm kind of going nuts. I keep saying "oh damn that's good" out loud to myself. and coaxing huge PDFs to finish downloading. it's kind of fun getting in that research/writing groove though. makes me feel very very productive!!
oh, and this list is great.
out of curiosity, who the hell is Strunk?
I guess I could ask the same of Diana Hacker, whose book me and my mom have used on numerous occasions to settle grammar disputes.
out of curiosity, who the hell is Strunk?
I guess I could ask the same of Diana Hacker, whose book me and my mom have used on numerous occasions to settle grammar disputes.
back on task!!!
k I'll be back to check this thread in a bit.
k I'll be back to check this thread in a bit.
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> out of curiosity, who the hell is Strunk?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Strunk,_Jr.
awesome.
I just put in a solid three hours of research and writing. felt fucking great. now I'm gonna eat for the second time today.
I just put in a solid three hours of research and writing. felt fucking great. now I'm gonna eat for the second time today.
> now I'm gonna eat for the second time today.
this week i learned this: don't take eating for granted. enjoy it. :)
this week i learned this: don't take eating for granted. enjoy it. :)
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@lucas: yeah, i was short on money a couple of weeks ago and didn't eat for 3 days. after day 2 i felt like i could go forever, at that point the feeling of hunger was pretty dull.
why'd you learn it this week, lucas?
I don't take it for granted, I just forget to do it for a while sometimes :).
I don't take it for granted, I just forget to do it for a while sometimes :).
because i couldn't for a few days.
> after day 2 i felt like i could go forever, at that point the feeling of hunger was pretty dull.
kinda the same for me, except that i couldn't get it off my mind a lot of the time.
> after day 2 i felt like i could go forever, at that point the feeling of hunger was pretty dull.
kinda the same for me, except that i couldn't get it off my mind a lot of the time.
my mom got me a couple of sweet grammar books for Christmas. Anne Stilman's Grammatically Correct and another book called Eats, Shoots & Leaves (forget the author).
eats, shoots & leaves is good
pretty intense though
pretty intense though
I've read the preface and introduction. so far, so good.
intense how?
intense how?
well, the author is a punctuation fiend
intense!
intense!
haha, that's a good thing!
some of the humor is making me think, "come on, lighten up," but I'm thinking it might be a little tongue-in-cheek.
'cause I'm definitely pretty picky about grammar, love knowing about it, and bad grammar is very off-putting to me, but I think that knowledge and proper use of grammar rules and punctuation can coexist peacefully with "online-speak." just because I say "brb" and don't capitalize stuff all the time on the internet, depending on my mood, doesn't mean I can't write nearly flawlessly!
some of the humor is making me think, "come on, lighten up," but I'm thinking it might be a little tongue-in-cheek.
'cause I'm definitely pretty picky about grammar, love knowing about it, and bad grammar is very off-putting to me, but I think that knowledge and proper use of grammar rules and punctuation can coexist peacefully with "online-speak." just because I say "brb" and don't capitalize stuff all the time on the internet, depending on my mood, doesn't mean I can't write nearly flawlessly!
same here. it just takes disconnecting online writing from formal writing (and maybe speaking too...)
when people don't do that then you get in trouble.
when people don't do that then you get in trouble.
*insert that quote about the virtues of being able to hold two opposing ideas in your head at once*
whoa sounds neat. hit me up
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
(attn: Gatzby :))
hahah.. that's a pretty brilliant quote
I've always loved it :).
king of similar, but a little clichéd is "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
king of similar, but a little clichéd is "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
as soon as i get back to kingston it will enter the typeset realm!
i'm so glad i'm not a novelist (yet? :( ).
this is so continually daunting.
this is so continually daunting.