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[dahlia_moon]

So I have two papers due next week, both for different classes (the Modern Novel class, and a Sex, Gender, and Species in Sci-fi class), but for the same book - Atwood's Oryx and Crake. Do you think I could get away with writing just one paper and passing it in for both classes? I mean, at this point, I just want to be done with this semester, but on the other...I don't think I can get away with that; it feels like cheating. And I'm pretty sure all English professors talk to each other here.

Oh decisions, decisions.

(This is the first time this has happened in my academic career, and I'm not sure I'm brilliant enough to ramble for 5+ pages twice on the same book.)

oh fuck
graduate school will kill me if this is the attitude I have when I'm only an undergrad.
i just really want to spend all day writing fic and catching up on movies/tv i haven't seen yet, not writing analysis papers.

Comments

[storm-loki.livejournal.com]

A dilemma I think you could solve by looking at what both classes want:

1 the novel requires a formulaic approach I am guessing, so you can fit the story, which I've read too BTW, and loved, into that format, the questions will give you some crossover, but the second class excites me, if I were in your shoes, you have certain angles to take:

gender and species, how gender is expressed potentially and culture, the mutants that dance and conduct religio styled practices in some way emulate the parent culture yet, they have links to birds and other genetic sources, here the divide between idiology shrinks, the woman with the guys who are two humans the isolated protagonist encounters from his hiding place are disgusted by the display, what are they disgusted by, and why?

The cargo cult, or cargo affect, not sure of the exact term but the mimickory and hybridisation of Atwood's Oryx and Crake's mutant species and the evolutionary offshoot intrigues the surviving scientist whom has himself mutated in terms of psychology, his complicity with the near extinction of the human race, (though the strangers indicate that it was not a total extinction as other survivors on the planet obviously exist, this disturbs him and he turns hostile - why?

the major theme you could play with here tags into genetic modificaion, as in the dangerous Monsanto and Dow Aggri corporations and the toxins on the ready-roundup crops, the pesicides containing ingredients that are threatening pollinating species like honey bees and the contamination of natural crops by the rogue Monsanto seeeds, the fact nobody can get Monsanto to open their research to the world and all this against the backdrop of GM mosquitos and salmon, released or contained in the case of the salmon in a Canadian super breeding pen.

Both essays have different areas to explore but the good thing is, you could copy both and re-write the approach, so it would be a 50-50 or thereabouts proposition.

Creating the approach is the fun part, then it gets more interesting - *hugs* hope this suggestion helps. <333

[lil-1337.livejournal.com]

Maybe write one main paper and tweak it a bit to hit the specifics for each class.

[amethysth.livejournal.com]

I've always heard it's never a good idea to submit the paper to two classes without asking permission if you can do this. I'm guessing it depends on the school and the professor, but I think it would be better to at least change bits of it (like someone else suggested, tweak it a little), so it's technically not the same paper.

oh fuck
graduate school will kill me if this is the attitude I have when I'm only an undergrad.
i just really want to spend all day writing fic and catching up on movies/tv i haven't seen yet, not writing analysis papers.

This is my brain all the time these days. I should be on pre-grad school "SUMMER VACATION" in two weeks though until August (minus a week in June for pre-law school events), so I'll have a little over two months to write all the fic and watch all the TV I need (before I probably can't do anything for three years D: ).