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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Lazy day (+ help in academic writing)

Did not do anything today. Except window shopping. On the internet.

I have several baskets filled in various shopping website. H&M, Gap and M&S are having sales, it's just too tempting not to click on the 'add to basket' box...But I'm resisting the urge to click Check-out so all is well (for now).

Anywaaaaaaaay...

Sort of finished the first draft of my methods chapter, after so much telling off from my supervisor. It is definitely not perfect. According to dear SV, I just don't have the argumentative flair (yet?). Somehow it is common among South-East Asians students to not be so argumentative, and somehow that doesn't fit well with Western assessors (that's what she said).

So the draft came with many comments attached, as she did it in Word. I somehow missed the red-pen marks; they're so much more convenient :) . She even suggested a website that helps you to write argumentatively (to think that such websites exist is funnily comforting). If you have any problems in producing analytical essays, do visit http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk . There are lots of examples of phrases that can be used in academic writing; they even categorised the phrases according to their function, if you can call it that :) .

I guess I'm going to skim through the comments and then lie down and think on the best strategy to tackle them. Or sleep, whichever comes first.

Good night.