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[truepenny]

I did not cheat to get this result. My hand to God.



Great Dane! You're 'Hamlet!'


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It's appropriate to today, because I realized last night that, yes, indeed, I do have to write the abstract for Dissertation Abstracts International. 350 words, or--as cavlec pointed out last night--one word per page. I have two weeks before the defense; it's not too early to be writing the abstract.

I hate writing abstracts and synopses. It's a little better with an abstract, because I don't have to cringe at how stupid my plot and characters look when stripped of their clothes and flesh, but I still hate it. It's much harder to write short than to write long to begin with, and, you know, if I could have written my dissertation in 350 words? Dude, I would have.

But that's today's goal. Banzai.

Comments

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Excelsior!

[naomichana.livejournal.com]

I found writing my abstract equally anticlimactic -- actually, I think I just edited the cover-letter paragraph in which I'd described my dissertation for research-oriented jobs.

[renenet.livejournal.com]

I think you should pick one word that sums up each page and string them together. It could be an abstract abstract.

[marypcb.livejournal.com]

describe it to someone else and get them to take notes - or even write it for you from that, as a first draft!