It is 12:12 A.M. currently and I have just finished taking my midnight-hour shot.
I do hope it makes me tired, as I could stand to have the sleep.
So, I fainted earlier once more, not surprisingly. At least, I think I did. Either that or my body was so tired that I do not recall laying down or sleeping. Hm, I suppose it's possible. At any rate, I was at my parents home with Alicia, so there was no real harm, if any, done.
AssassinationGoddess seems to be curious to what makes me so hard as a teacher and honesty, doll, I do not know.
I shall explain the process. We must type three types of essays a semester, these being the narrative, definition, and persuasive essays.
I allow them to pick their own topic and set no length on their papers so, as long as they've made a decent little story, they do fine on their grade.
But you see, while they are doing these essays, I am slowly making them do parts of the research paper.
1. The first month of classes, I teach them how to citations correctly and how not to plagiarize as they write their first essay. .
2. The second month of classes, I have them pick their own topic (which must be Ok'd by me) and they must bring me source-cards. 20 sources minimum for this. They only need 7 for the research paper itself, but I have them make so many so they might have sources to go back to should the first seven not work out, and this is done over the time of three weeks. This all occurs as they are writing the second essay
3. The third month of classes, I have them to make note-cards from the seven sources they chose. The sources I put stipulations on was that one must be a book and one must be a periodical of some sort, which is the English (Euro or American) standard for MLA format papers. 50 note-cards minimum and it is done over the process of three weeks. The third essay is being written now.
4. Three weeks ago, I gave them an outline to type their paper by, sheets explaining how to avoid plagirizm, that the length of the paper only had to be 5 pages long minimum, and let them loose.
I do not know, Assassination, why I am considered a hard teacher. But more, it is that everyone procrastinates and can't get their a** off the couch or away from the computer to do their work.
Does this really sound so hard? I will let you decide.
I am done for tonight. 読書をありがとう
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Its do-able.
But people are so used to half assing things.
I know I have done it couple of times but sometimes with legitimate reasons..
Sometimes Its really hard for me to thing of anything to write that would actually turn out into something good.
But procrastination is not the answer ,especially when directions are layed out in front of you and you are guided to do so.