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ANTI-CAPITALIST AFFIRMATIONS
i am allowed to spend my time creating things, even if they are not beautiful.
there is no such thing as a "real job." all forms of work are real and valid.
there is nothing that i need to accomplish to be worthy. i am already worthy.
doing nothing is good for my soul.
i am not defined by what i produce.
my worth cannot be measured by my paycheck, my job title, or a list of professional or academic achievements.
i do not need to monetize my hobbies, it is enough to spend time doing something i love.
i will not let society decide what success looks like. i can define what successful life looks like for me.
i'm seeing my fav kpop group in 11 days i'm so excited
Flower picking with my mother the other day. ā”
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Work officially starts on my thesis today, thankfully my lecturer liked my idea, I just have to get a bit more specific. Now for lots of research and reading!

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tears all i have to say is tears
whenever i'm not in school i romanticize it so much i'm always like "man i can't wait to write essays again" no you don't are you insane
when he says āilyā, but Achilles once said āi would recognize you in total darkness, were you mute and i deaf. i would recognize you in another lifetime entirely, in different bodies, different times. and i would love you in all of this, until the very last star in the sky burnt out into oblivion."
thereās so many things I want to do! unfortunately thereās also little determination from my part and images to look at instead
some easy to follow tips on how to organize your digital life for a stress-free experience while trying your best at school!Ā āØš
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Academic writing advice inspired by Umberto Ecoās āHow to Write a Thesisā:
Planning
Determine primary sources/bibliography.
Determine secondary sources/bibliography.Ā
Find title.
Brainstorm a table of contents with as much detail as possible (with chapters, sections and even paragraphs and sub-paragraphs - see How to Write a Thesisā own table of contents as an example at the end of this document) (if the first drafted table of contents is good enough, it will not be necessary to start the writing from the beginning).
Do a first draft of the introduction.
Note-taking and research
Use Google Scholar to make sure you do not miss important sources.
Keep the table of contents in mind when researching and take notes of which sources could go where.
While note-taking, differentiate which parts could be used as quotations from the ones that are simply important for the argument.
Eco underlines the importance of what he calls reading sheets, which can be understood as your notes on your readings. According to him, these should contain:
information about the author if he is not a well-known figure;
a brief (or long) summary;
they should mostly consist of quotations (accompanied by all the corresponding page numbers)
any commentaries you might want to add;
an indication of which part (or parts) of your table of contents the information mentioned belongs to.
Keep reading sheets on primary sources (which should be the longest) separate from those on secondary sources (which should only be 1-2 pages long).
In the end, re-read the notes and color-code all the different parts according to where they would fit in your table of contents.
Writing and editing
A good place to start would be by redrafting the introduction.
Define every key/technical term used/mentioned unless indisputably obvious.
General writing tips:
keep sentences short;
do not be afraid to repeat the subject twice (ex: Roberta went to the shop (ā¦) Roberta bought carrots and tomatoes);
avoid excessive details;
avoid subordinate clauses (oraƧƵes subordinadas);
avoid vague language;
avoid unnecessary adjectives;
avoid the passive voice.
While drafting, write everything that comes to mind. Leave the editing for the end.
Use your tutor as a Guinea pig. Make them read your first chapters (and, progressively, all the rest) well before delivery is due.Ā
Ask for as much feedback as possible. Ask colleagues, friends and/or family to read your work. They will provide you with more diversified feedback, as well as allowing you to know if your writing is clear to anyone.
Stop playing āsolitary geniusā.
Donāt insist on starting with the first chapter. Start with what you know best and feel more comfortable writing about, then fill in the gaps.
Leave time for editing and try to take at least a one or two days long break in between writing and editing.Ā
Do not forget to fill in the gaps. When you revisit your writing, go through it with all these writing tips in mind as well as a conscience of what your most common mistakes are.
Use Hemingway in the final editing phase.
Quotations and footnotes
Since there are two kinds of sources (primary and secondary), there are also two kinds of quotations: either we quote a text which we will interpret, or we quote a text which supports your interpretation.
Some quotation rules to know:
āQuote the object of your interpretive analysis with reasonable abundance.ā
Ā āQuote the critical literature only when its authority corroborates or confirms your statements. (ā¦)Ā when quoting or citing critical [aka secondary] literature, be sure that it says something new, or that it confirms authoritatively what you have said.ā
āIf you donāt want readers to presume that you share the opinion of the quoted author, you must include your own critical remarks before or after the passage.ā
āMake sure that the author and the source of your quote are clearly identifiable.ā
āWhen a quote does not exceed two or three lines, you can insert it into the body of the text enclosed in quotation marks. (ā¦) When the quote is longer, it is better to set it off as a block quotation. In this case the quotation marks are not necessary, because it is clear that all set-off passages are quotes, and we must commit to a different system for our observations. (Any secondary developments [like the quoteās reference] should appear in a note.) (ā¦) This method is quite convenient because it immediately reveals the quoted texts; it allows the reader to skip them if he is skimming, to linger if he is more interested in the quoted texts than in our commentary, and finally, to find them immediately when need be.ā
Some footnote rules to know:
āUse notes to add additional supporting bibliographical references on a topic you discuss in the text. For example, āon this topic see also so-and-so.āā
āUse notes to introduce a supporting quote that would have interrupted the text. If you make a statement in the text and then continue directly to the next statement for fluidity, a superscript note reference after the first statement can refer the reader to a note in which a well-known authority backs up your assertion.ā
āUse notes to expand on statements you have made in the text. Use notes to free your text from observations that, however important, are peripheral to your argument or do nothing more than repeat from a different point of view what you have essentially already said.ā
āUse notes to correct statements in the text. You may be sure of your statements, but you should also be conscious that someone may disagree, or you may believe that, from a certain point of view, it would be possible to object to your statement. Inserting a partially restrictive note will then prove not only your academic honesty but also your critical spirit.ā
āUse notes to provide a translation of a quote, or to provide the quote in the original language.ā
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FROMIRELANDTOKOREAāS LESSON MASTERLIST
Seeing as I have a masterlist for ALL of my posts, including resources, books, etc (find it here) I wanted an organised lesson one! I hope this will help everyone! Updated: 10 March 2020
HANGUL/READING:
Lesson 1: Hangul Basic Consonants Pt.1 Lesson 2: Hangul Basic Consonants Pt.2 Lesson 3: Hangul Basic ConsonantsĀ Lesson 4: Diphthongs Lesson 5: Aspirated and Double Consonants Lesson 6: Batchim Pt.1Ā Lesson 22: Batchim Pt. 2 NEED TO KNOW:
Lesson 17: How Korean Age Works Lesson 18: Levels of Politeness in Korean Lesson 105: Korean Holiday Chuseok
VOCABULARY:
Lesson 7: Hello, Thank You, Goodbye, Yes and No Lesson 8: Iām Sorry Lesson 9: Please, More, a Little Lesson 14: Native Korean Numbers and Uses Lesson 16: Sino-Korean Numbers and Uses Lesson 19: Days of the Week Lesson 20: Months Lesson 21: Body Parts Lesson 23: School Subjects Lesson 24: School Vocabulary Lesson 25: Family Lesson 42: Today, Tomorrow, Now etc. Lesson 58: Vegetables Lesson 59: Fruit Lesson 60: Emotions Lesson 61: Food and Drink Lesson 68: Sports Lesson 69: Places in Town Lesson 79: AnimalsĀ Lesson 80: ClothesĀ Lesson 84: Sickness Pt. 1 Lesson 85: Sickness Pt. 2 Lesson 86: Sickness Pt. 3 Lesson 93: Transportation Lesson 94: HalloweenĀ Lesson 102: The House Lesson 103: Shopping Lesson 106: Dating, Love, Marriage Lesson 107: Random Vocabulary GRAMMAR: Lesson 10: It Is, What is It? Lesson 12: This Is, What is This? Lesson 13: This, That, It, Thing Lesson 26: Have/Donāt Have Lesson 17: 15 Useful Verbs Lesson 27: Present Tense Conjugation Lesson 28: Past Tense Conjugation Lesson 29-32: Future Tense 1Ā 2 3 4 Future Tense Meanings and Examples 1Ā 2Ā 3Ā 4 Lesson 33: How to Form Korean Sentences Lesson 34: Donāt + Verb Lesson 35:Ā Topic/Subject Marking Particles ~ģ/ė + ~ģ“/ź° Lesson 36:Ā Topic/Subject Marking Particles ~ģ/ė + ~ģ“/ź° Pt 2 Lesson 37: Object Marking Particle ~ģ/넼 Lesson 38: Want To -ź³ ģ¶ģ“ģ Lesson 39: Location Marking Particles ~ģ“ė, ~ģ, ~ģģ Lesson 40: Negative Sentences Lesson 41: Negative Sentences with ķė¤ Lesson 43: Who? Lesson 44: Why, How, How much? Lesson 45: From - To - , From - Until - Lesson 46: Therefore, So Lesson 47: Ā And, With ~ķź³ , ~(ģ“)ė Lesson 48: Ā But, However, ~ź·øė ģ§ė§, ~ź·øė°ė° Lesson 49: Ā To/From Someone Lesson 50: Plural Nouns Lesson 51: Telling Time Lesson 53: -ģ§ ė§ģøģ (ģ§ė§) Lesson 54: -(ģ¼)ģøģ Imperative Lesson 55: -ģ/ģ“/ģ¬ ģ£¼ģøģ Lesson 56: -ė Too, Also, As Well Lesson 57: -ė§ Only Lesson 62: Can, Cannot - (ģ¼)ć¹ ģ ģė¤/ģė¤ Lesson 63: Present/Past/Future Progressive Lesson 64: A bit, Really, Very, Not really, Not at all Lesson 65: Changing Nouns into Verbs -ė ź²Ā Lesson 66: Counters ź° + ėŖ Lesson 67: To Be Good/Bad At Lesson 70: Have to, Should, Must Lesson 71: Still, Not Yet Lesson 72: Already Lesson 73: (ģ¼)ė” Lesson 74: If, In Case Lesson 75: Letās Lesson 76: Pronouns + Possessive Pronouns Lesson 77:ć¹/ģ ź²: Lesson 78: Doable/Worth Doing Lesson 81: (ģ¼)ć ģė¤ Lesson 82: ģ²ė¼ Like Lesson 83: Moreā¦.Than Lesson 87: ģ¢ė¤ vs ģ¢ģķė¤ Lesson 88: -擟° Lesson 89: ė¤, ė - All, More Lesson 90: Behind, In Front of, Beside Lesson 91: Written Descriptive Form Adjectives Lesson 92: Before -ing Lesson 95: To be Similar to/The Same as -ź°ė¤ Lesson 96: To Care/Not Care Pt.1 Lesson 97: To Care/Not Care Pt.2 Lesson 98: Connecting Verbs Lesson 99: Might, Perhaps, Itās Possible Lesson 100: To Want ģķė¤ Lesson 101: Korean Conjunctions Lesson 104: From A to B Lesson 108: Narrative Tense Lesson 109:Ā -ģ§/-ģ£ Lesson 110:Ā -ė Lesson: 111:Ā -ć /ģµėź¹Ā Lesson 113: Shall I? Lesson 114: Agreeing/Disagreeing
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Lesson 11: Where Are You From? Iām From Lesson 52: Self IntroductionĀ Lesson 112: Travelling Phrases Pt 1
Hello!Ā As finals season (aka 5-research-papers-due-in-a-week season) dawns on many of you, I thought I would share the process I used to write papers in college. This made writing long research papers much less daunting (but can also work on shorter papers). I really hope this helps some of you who feel stuck.Ā Especially during these ridiculous times, when youāre stuck at home and might have other uncontrollable factors affecting your mental health, a clear framework of what to do could be helpful. Good luck, my friends! You got this.
About me
I graduated college in 2018 with degrees in Political Science + International Studies and will be starting law school this fall. I wrote nearly 20 15 to 25-page papers, never earning below an A. I loved researching about my topics but hated writing. Itās tedious, takes so much time, and everything I write sounds bad at first. Plus, I was a terrible procrastinator so most of these essays were written in under a week. Talk about stress.
Over time I found a process that worked for me, one that made churning out a paper seem straightforward, like going through a factory line rather than this terrifying concept of writing 10,000 words. It kept me sane without decreasing the quality of my work (or more importantly, how much I learned!)Ā
Iām thinking about making a short video to show this in action⦠let me know if that could be helpful!
Step 1: Research
How you organize your research is a key step in keeping you sane. Usually Iāll have a pile of 20 books in my dorm along with dozens of JSTOR tabs open on my laptop, and that can get overwhelming very fast. Right now just focus on collecting ideas, not developing an argument or even an outline! As with most research papers, you could be starting with little to no background information on the topic, so it is still too early to be thinking about an argument.
Put all your research in one document
Open up a new doc: this will be the heart of everything. For a 15-page paper I usually end up with around 14-18 pages of typed research, 10 pt font, single spaced, tiny margins. This seems like a lot, but essentially all I do is type up anything I read that seems relevant to my topic, so luckily this step does not require that much brain power. Just type type type!
Use the table of contents
Find the chapter(s) that are actually relevant instead of skimming through the whole book. Time is of the essence here!
Use Zotero, cite right away
You can also use easybib or whatever youāre used to, but keep track of your sources. I like Zotero because I can keep a log of all of my sources and copy the footnote or bibliography version whenever needed. Before you even begin reading, cite the source and copy it into your research doc. This will save you so much time later when you have to put in your citations in the actual paper.Ā
Here is an example of what my research doc looks like:
Full citation is my heading for each source just so itās crystal clear
I ignore all typos (I donāt think there are any in this part though, go me!) because my head is buried in the book just trying to get all the info down
I always start with the page number so I know what to cite when I go back
Create a shorthandĀ
While typing up research, you might think of something that the author didnāt talk about that youāll want to write in your paper. Or perhaps a few sentences already start to form. Put them all in one place, with your research, so you know what source youāll have to cite to then lead into your idea. I type ā!@#ā before anything that is strictly my own idea so Iām never confused. Itās fast and stands out.
This is an example: the two bullet points above are evidence from my source, which made me think of this argument I could make, which I noted with ā!@#ā
Step 2: Read Your Research
Now that you have all your information, go back and read through it all. Every time you read about a new theme/person/event, write it down somewhere. You may come up with a list of 20+ different ideas in your research. No matter how small, as long as there is somethingĀ about it, write it down. Each of these mini themes is going to end up being a paragraph in your paper or combined with another mini theme.Ā
Once youāve made your list, look for larger overarching themes. In the paper Iāve shown you, I had mini categories likeĀ āpolitical party xāĀ āreligionāĀ ālabor groupsāĀ ālittle organizationā and āhierarchy.ā When I looked back I though, hey these are all groups and how groups are working together, so they each became their own mini paragraph under the subsection ofĀ āAlliances.ā
As with most research paper structures, I try to find threeĀ general themes/subsections (like an extended version of that 5-paragraph essay we wrote in middle school). It makes the paper less messy and also makes sure Iām not covering things that are beyond a reasonable scope.
During this step, you are also searching for your thesis. It wonāt be your final version.Ā As you fill in your outline in the next step you may make slight changes. But this is definitely when you start thinking about it.
Step 3: Outline
Weāre ready to outline! Once Iāve collected all my different themes and organized all my subsections and paragraphs, itās time to fill in that outline. I start a new doc just for the outline and take advantage of google docās headings function to make a clear document outline.
Here comes the fun part, I read through my research one more time, this time copy and pasting all my research into each section of the outline. The document outline in google docs makes this easy because I can just click on each subheading to get me there (super helpful when youāre dealing with 15+ pages of research).
Here is what it looks like:
Letās say I need to add something to my outline about labor groups. Boom, labor groups. Also, the typos are really abound here haha
Step 4: Write the Paper
Okay, I get it, easier said than done. BUT! You already have everything set up. Your outline is essentially just a list of your paragraphs and all you have to do is paraphrase, cite, and create a topic sentence. And thatās how you should think about this: youāre essentially transforming bullet points into sentences and adding footnotes.Ā
In high school my English teacher introduced us to Sh*tty First DraftsĀ for creative writing, but honestly the same applies to research papers. Sometimes Iāll even have phrases likeĀ āwait no thatās not what I meant but basicallyā¦ā and when I go back to edit, I realize that what came afterĀ ābut basicallyā¦ā is fine! And I keep it. So just start typing.
How do you cite while you write? Because weāre trying to get a constant stream of writing going, inserting proper footnotes after each sentence you type is too bothersome. I usually split screen with my outline and my paper so I just copy and paste a few words from my bullet point into my footnote, like so:
(This is from a different paper about cluster munitions.)
Step 5: Edit the Paper
I work best when I print out my first draft and make all edits in red pen. I feel more productive and can visually see where I want to move sentences and what I need to change. The more red there is the better I can feel the paper getting. (Whether or not thatās true doesnāt matter. Weāre trying to stay motivated here!) When itās all digital I donāt really see the progress. Plus, once I finish all the red, I get another moment of passive brain work, where all Iām doing is transferring edits rather than thinking. And at this point in the process, that kind of relief is much welcomed.Ā
The good thing about this process is thereās not usually a need to cut entire paragraphs or pages because the paper you end up with is just a formalized version of your outline. Because you started with such a detailed outline, the cutting and editing now is just to refine your word choices and get rid of theĀ ābut basicallyās. Youāre almost there!
Step 6: Replace your citations
Now itās time to go back and replace your footnotes with actual citations. Zotero makes this easy because in Word you can just insert and add the page number, and itāll automatically doĀ āIbid.ā for you when needed. Ctrl+f in the original research doc to quickly find the source.
Step 7: One More Read-Through and Submit!
Congratulations!! Youāve got a fully-researched and well-backed paper! Of course, even though the process is straightforward, itās still a lot of work. In ideal situations I would start researching two weeks before the deadline, but if need be, I believe Iāve done this all in three miserable panic-filled days as well.Ā
Please message me if you have any questions at all! I really hope some of you find this helpful! Good luck!
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As most people are working and studying from home right now, I wanted to share some concrete, implementable ways you can help yourself feel better. Though I believe productivity and quantity of work done (or lack thereof) doesnāt/shouldnāt translate into your self-worth and how you view yourself, when you get work done, you actually do feel better in your own body.Ā
By the way, itās the first time Iām formatting a tips/guide post like this, so I apologize that I couldnāt be more concise.
Iāve spoken to a licensed professional counsellor as well as to some professionals who have been working from home for a long time, and some of the advice above is from them. Iām also sharing from my own experience as someone who used to be very productive and an (ex-)overachiever, and still attach a lot of my self-worth to grades and other tangible accomplishments. I hope these slides can help you. In case itās hard to read, Iāve included it (reworded) in text form if youād like to read more.Ā
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