writing a student essay
DESCRIPTION
Short musings on how to avoid common mistakes.TRANSCRIPT
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Writ
ing S
tuden
t ess
ays:
A
Quick G
uide
Andrés G
uadam
uz
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What
mak
es a
Goo
d ess
ay?
"I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it”Potter Stewart, Jacobellis v. Ohio
Don’t
ask
me,
I ju
st w
ork
here!
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Answer
the
Questio
n
It’s
ther
e fo
r a re
ason
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Para
graphs a
re y
our f
riends
And use
sec
tion h
eader
s to
o!
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Have
a poi
nt, an
d get
to it
If yo
u mis
s th
e poi
nt, yo
u mis
s th
e m
ark.
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Struct
ure
Regula
tion b
y ar
chite
cture
is a
nic
e co
ncept
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The
mor
e yo
u read
, the
mor
e
you ca
n say
It’s
never
bee
n eas
ier t
o re
sear
ch
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Citatio
n, Cita
tion, C
itatio
n
Did I
men
tion c
itatio
n?
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The
Inte
rnet
has
chan
ged
ever
ythin
g!
Avoid
com
mon
place
s an
d unsu
pporte
d sta
tem
ents
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Quick checklist
Bibliography.
Word count.
Formatting matters (it may show you didn’t have time).
If possible, have someone else read the work.
Poor capitalization, grammar and punctuation may get in the way of your idea.
Cite everything!
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How to cite (Original)
Alvin Kernan, The Playwright as Magician. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. pp. 102–103.
“From time to time this submerged or latent theater in becomes almost overt. It is close to the surface in Hamlet’s pretense of madness, the “antic disposition” he puts on to protect himself and prevent his antagonists from plucking out the heart of his mystery. It is even closer to the surface when Hamlet enters his mother’s room and holds up, side by side, the pictures of the two kings, Old Hamlet and Claudius, and proceeds to describe for her the true nature of the choice she has made, presenting truth by means of a show. Similarly, when he leaps into the open grave at Ophelia’s funeral, ranting in high heroic terms, he is acting out for Laertes, and perhaps for himself as well, the folly of excessive, melodramatic expressions of grief.”
http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/integrity/08/plagiarism/
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Verbatim Unacknowledged plagiarism
Almost all of Shakespeare’s Hamlet can be understood as a play about acting and the theater. For example, there is Hamlet’s pretense of madness, the “antic disposition” that he puts on to protect himself and prevent his antagonists from plucking out the heart of his mystery. When Hamlet enters his mother’s room, he holds up, side by side, the pictures of the two kings, Old Hamlet and Claudius, and proceeds to describe for her the true nature of the choice she has made, presenting truth by means of a show. Similarly, when he leaps into the open grave at Ophelia’s funeral, ranting in high heroic terms, he is acting out for Laertes, and perhaps for himself as well, the folly of excessive, melodramatic expressions of grief.
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Selected passages unacknowledged
“Almost all of Shakespeare’s Hamlet can be understood as a play about acting and the theater. For example, in Act 1, Hamlet adopts a pretense of madness that he uses to protect himself and prevent his antagonists from discovering his mission to revenge his father’s murder. He also presents truth by means of a show when he compares the portraits of Gertrude’s two husbands in order to describe for her the true nature of the choice she has made. And when he leaps in Ophelia’s open grave ranting in high heroic terms, Hamlet is acting out the folly of excessive, melodramatic expressions of grief.”
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Proper citation
Kernan [Insert Footnote] believes that almost all of Shakespeare’s Hamlet can be understood as a play about acting and the theater. He says:
“From time to time this submerged or latent theater in becomes almost overt. It is close to the surface in Hamlet’s pretense of madness, the “antic disposition” he puts on to protect himself and prevent his antagonists from plucking out the heart of his mystery.” [You can also insert footnote here]
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Have fun and Good luck