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[Paper] My introductory paragraph How's it look? cognitiveleague?
asuka brain
:|a Your second sentence doesn't seem to relate to the first, but I've never read the Tale of Genji, so I'm blind.
Makimerry🤶
Oh Murasaki Shikibu is the author of the tale of genji
Makimerry🤶
Do you think the sentence would flow better structured differently? Cause it was kind of forced, most of my sources seem to put her name in the intro para somewhere
asuka brain
I think if you restructure it, it'll flow better. Uhh. Lemme see...
asuka brain
"The Tale of Genji presents a series of relationships patterned after gendered conventions of aggression." is your thesis, right?
Makimerry🤶
Yeah... to be honest thesis-writing has always been my weak spot, especially now that college has a whole new set of expectations.
Makimerry🤶
So that sentence kind of fails as a thesis because this paper is actually only about that Akashi chapter.
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An early version of my thesis when I was trying to just get a sentence was:
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In analyzing the poetry of the Akashi chapter in the McCullough translation, [i.e. of the tale of Genji]
Makimerry🤶
I will show how Genji is unsympathetically annoyed when his misconduct disappoints women enough that they express any emotion other than passive affection.
asuka brain
That feels a bit too specific. I think you could combine the two i.e. "Chapter X of the Tale of Genji exemplifies something something."
asuka brain
I generally avoided using "I" when I wrote papers, but I'm not sure what your prof's opinion is on it
Makimerry🤶
A lot of my sources use "I" but I'm less than lukewarm about it myself... This is a tightening of the first two sentences with the last part mostly unchanged
asuka brain
I like that much better.
asuka brain
I was a history major, so maybe it was a bit different.
Makimerry🤶
I'll leave that paragraph the way it is for now, I think the last sentence could be cleaned up and split but at this point generating more prose is a priority
asuka brain
Ayep.
Makimerry🤶
I've got a lot of material lined up but this is really the... start... of writing anything like paragraphs that would be turned in, if that makes sense.
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Oh NO a fanfic I like had a 20000 word update IT'S OKAY I'LL JUST NOT READ IT
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Y EA H
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IT CAN BE MY... REWARD...
Makimerry🤶
COME ON, LENGA, YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO WRITE ABOUT HOW AWFUL GENJI IS
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Find it deep within yourself, the bottomless well with disdain for the patriarchy
Makimerry🤶
ugh, as I keep writing it looks more and more like I'm stringing quotes together. This is different from high school, I don't know why
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