Thursday, December 07, 2006

Technical Writing No More

My first final is gone, done, finished. It was technical writing, rescheduled because the instructor couldn't make it back from Orlando in time to give us a final on Tuesday night. I'm not complaining about that. The final, however, was crazy. Question 1: List three ways to avoid plagiarism. (a) Don't do it, (b) See number a, (c) See number b. Is there anything other than just not plagiarizing? It's not a hard concept. There were some grammar questions that were pretty obvious, I thought. Some weird quotation / paraphrasing things. I finished in about 10 minutes.

I also got my paper and presentation grades. Paper was an A, not bad for an afternoon of writing and another of finding sources to claim for everything I said. The presentation was an A-, but an overall score of 9/10. Those two don't match, in my opinion, but since the grading is only pass / fail, I really don't care. If somehow I fail because of the final I barely tried on, I need everyone to pool their money to bail me out of jail. It'll be justified homocide, but I'll still need bail money. I promise I won't skip out on it.

I downloaded and upgraded to Internet Explorer 7 today. I like most of the changes, and I'm sure I'll get used to the others. The tabbed windows and multiple homepages are nice immediately. I give it a B right now after about an hour of total use.

I'm getting to bed as early as possible tonight to be well rested for my math final. More tomorrow.

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