I was informed today, by a fairly reliable source, that my stupid reflection paper (see my post titled Paper Writing) will probably not even be read by the TA, let alone the professor. My source's opinion was that as long as I had a title page and three pages of text, I'd get an A. Period.
So I thought to myself, "Ok. If that's how this is going to work, then I'm going to have a little fun with it." :)
Just in case Ryan is reading the papers, I'm not going to screw up my next reflection paper. However, I've got a 1-page chapter summary due in April (I've been planning to write it this weekend just to get it out of the way before life gets ridiculously hectic). And I'm very seriously considering writing it in iambic pentameter. (Thanks, Jennifer, for the fantastic suggestion!)
What do you think? I think it will be a great writing exercise. And really, what's the worst that can happen? If it's even read, perhaps he/they will find it entertaining, or perhaps they'll be so impressed by the fact that they don't understand it that they'll give me an A anyway.
I fully realize that I am about to do something obnoxious. But I might as well channel my frustrated energy into something artistically productive, right?
5 comments:
Most definitely! At least you're not transforming it into a sestina!
Oh my gosh.... I don't even want to think how long that would take. Not to mention the fact that the subject at hand is this guy's healing ministry and some sermon he wrote (I get to choose which one...yippee!).
A sestina would be lost on these people anyway. I'd be stretching it with iambic pentameter (if, again, they were actually reading it).
I think iambic pentameter is a fantastic idea! (Anything literary is fantastic in my world of Physics right now!) Another idea is to translate the entire paper into Middle English! I may try that with my next Physics summary (because I'm convinced that my prof doesn't read them since he's given me 100% on every one I've turned in, despite the fact that I insert personal asides into every paragraph). Isn't college fun?!?
Hmm. Middle English. With the new HTML characters Stan posted for me. *smiles gleefully*
This is going to be fun.
Or how about Elvish? Or Westron?
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