Say Again?

Well.

*sobs*

It's over.

We essentially have to start from scratch. And my entire section got crossed out! Literally. The mark-up of our second draft had one entire page x-ed out, and it was part of the article that I wrote...

All of my group members are beyond frustrated, but, eh, I'm taking it with a grain of salt. Maybe it's because I'm a senior, with 2 and a half weeks left of classes. Maybe it's because we deserved that B, and also really need to re-write it. Maybe it's because the issue isn't the lack of information, it's the lack of enthusiasm we're gathering from this project. The longer it goes, and the more we go in circles, the more discouraged we get, and the lazier our writing gets.

The solution to our problem of laziness? Fear of getting a bad grade! We talked about that as one of our solutions to plagiarism, which, oddly, none of us ever thought about. A student in class brought up the fact that turnitin isn't just a detection software, it's a software full of fear that will prevent students from plagiarizing if they know they have to feed their paper in it for a class. That was interesting for me. I never thought about it that way.

Our final draft is due Monday. Then it's getting published and out into the public for the whole world to finally read....unless of course, you've been keeping up with my blog ;)