“He’s telling us not to use it,” Stapleton said, “and then he’s using it himself.”
Well, you are to prove you’ve mastered the material. He already did.
But then, writing assignments have been a waste of time for a long time now. Why waste time on writing the joining sentences, where only a few points matter?
For both my theses I haven’t read a single paper back to back because most of the volume is a waste of space. Methodology, graphs, data, opinions, how can we improve further - sure. But a page of introduction to the background context? Why write it if myself I’m skipping it when reading papers of others? Summary of previous papers on the topic? Give me a list of what works the author is aware of and let’s get moving. Either I’m searching for something and I will go ahead and skim them, or I don’t care about author’s summary of other works. If there is some relevant data in other works, it will be cited when referenced
Well, you are to prove you’ve mastered the material. He already did.
But then, writing assignments have been a waste of time for a long time now. Why waste time on writing the joining sentences, where only a few points matter?
“Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?”
Exactly
For both my theses I haven’t read a single paper back to back because most of the volume is a waste of space. Methodology, graphs, data, opinions, how can we improve further - sure. But a page of introduction to the background context? Why write it if myself I’m skipping it when reading papers of others? Summary of previous papers on the topic? Give me a list of what works the author is aware of and let’s get moving. Either I’m searching for something and I will go ahead and skim them, or I don’t care about author’s summary of other works. If there is some relevant data in other works, it will be cited when referenced