Essays need words
A good way to make exams and essays easier on one’s constitution, is to write with the aim of including a certain word or phrase regardless of it’s suitability. Example: I once challenged myself to include the phrase, ‘women, can’t live with them, can’t live without them’, in a Classics essay. I succeeded. For single words, pretentiousness is the key. Perhaps people could offer suggestions to help students with upcoming assessments.
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I’ll get the ball rolling by suggesting ‘qua’.
I also like the use of “You can’t make a blanket rule about x, you have to take it on an x by x basis” a la the Simpsons “Marge, I’ve told you that you can’t make a blanket rule about drifters, you have to take it on a drifter by drifter basis”
Ha. Yes. Do you reckon it would be possible to squeeze in “knifey spooney” into a uni essay? I’m sure it must be a metaphor for something deep.
i take issue with this post right from the get-go. ‘Essays need words’. What about photo-essays?
(hidden within this post is a suggestion of a word to use)
Sorry, my bad.
My personal challenge for this semester is to write that Freud’s rabid atheism was merely a product of his own infantile-narcissistic rebellion against the father-figure of God, rendering any of his views on religion highly suspect in light of his own analytical theory.
True or not.
Ha
Ben, I don’t think that you can make a blanket statement about all of Freuds views on religion, but you have to assess it on a religious view by religious view basis.
Why? He trashed all religions at the same time, irrespective of their differences.