Well this has been an awful week.
On Monday I got back my artifact review, complete with a big fat C. This was obviously upsetting. I haven't gotten a C on an English paper (or any paper, for that matter) since...well...ever. Writing has always been "my thing", and I have always sort of taken for granted my ability to pull A-plus papers out of thin air. And the truth is, I worked hard on that paper. So getting a C honestly sucked.
The week went downhill from there. I've been really sick lately, and staying up late working hasn't done much to help out. On top of that, I feel like I've hit a dead end on my research. All of the sources I'm finding are confirming what I already believe - that Twilight is an anti-feminist piece of abstinence propaganda. There's nothing new in the sources I'm finding, and I still haven't been able to find out why this anti-feminist piece of abstinence propaganda is so successful. There hasn't been any extensive research into the psychology of fandom; at least, not any that I can find. So I'm stuck running in circles, chasing my own tail, and it's really frustrating.
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I feel you on the disappointment of a crappy review grade. I also got a C. I spent lots of time trying to craft something that was interesting, but couldn;t or didnt narrow my idea down enough, and it reflected in my grade as well. I hope you are feeling better, and hopefully found an interesting new way to approach your idea.
ReplyDeleteI think you have a great start, but being such a new artifact it can be difficult to find reliable material. I know when we were in special collections the librarian suggested looking into bram strokers dracula. did you have any luck with that? or perhaps just on the media sensation that seems to always surround movies/books about the supernatural... i think you have such an interesting topic. I have been so apposed to watching the movie Twilight, but because you are doing this article i might just have to..
Where is your research at this point? How are the psychological propaganda aspects, have you been able to find any scholarly information on this idea of abstinence propaganda? That could be a really interesting spinoff on the research!
I am sorry to hear about the artifact review thingy. I almost turned mine in on time, but decided to put another day into it and just take the late-paper deduction. Well, whatev. Life goes on. It sucks at times. But it goes on. I’m sure you’ll do better on the next paper: you are a good writer and you have no reason to doubt yourself.
ReplyDeleteWith that said, what areas––and you don’t have to say which, this is more to ask yourself––what areas did you get marked down on and how could you better explore/elaborate on those in your research?
On my paper that I got back, Becca marked that I could have provided much more analysis on my artifact...which I suppose was kind of the point of the paper to begin with. Oh well. But I did follow up on that and actual analyses of my artifact, rather than the mostly biographical stuff I had looked at for the review.
So don’t be discouraged and keep going on your research. I’m excited to see what’s next, even if you feel you’re at an impasse. And I think it’s important to come up short once in awhile––I’ve grown a lot in my own writing by making mistakes and getting back “satisfactory” papers.