GOGSoc the Third

It's time for the Grumpy Old Graduate Society. Post here if you want to join and for GOG chat. (I edit to put in a list of the members when I get the chance).


Honourable Members (who are half these people?)



Associates (Those who are grumpy but not yet graduates)

Who are the associates?

Honourary Members

Chuck Norris (First Class Honours in Pain)

Recursion.

This will work provided nobody deletes posts

EDIT: Surprising you are having such difficulty when TSR has circular references in the forum links all over the place e.g. the never-ending subforums of About > Dev & Bugs > About > Dev & Bugs > ....

I hardly ever look anywhere apart from about 8 forums.

Interesting that you can use postcount= to arbitrarily renumber things.

edit: unsurprisingly 2147483647 is the highest possible.

Lol, I hadn't spotted that. 2³¹ - 1 ?

Soc is under the influence of extremists, trufax. Stop going to that mosque tbh.

Soc just wants to exclaim that he's in Sparta at some appropriate moment. When he's done that he'll shave it.

Ok, so it isn't really long, but I'm working on it.

Is it possible to go into too much detail in a proposal? I am structuring mine so that each section has a paragraph-long summary at the start, then 2-3 paragraphs of (heavily edited) explanation. I kind of feel the reader in need of just the outline argument can read the first paragraph, then skip the rest if they don't want to hear about it. But on the other hand, I feel everything would be significantly weaker if I didn't attempt an exposé of (i) the philosophical ideas I invoke and (ii) their concrete relation to the literary texts I'm discussing.

I feel kind of stuck, since my mode seems to be oscillating between "proposal" and "essay", even though the "essay" part is being significantly cut down and rewritten.

They say 7-10 pages will in fact be OK, and that they asked for 5 as a way to avoid getting crappy 2 page things... but I am wondering if going into too much detail perhaps suggests I already know too much and don't actually need to go do research??

Yeah, Soc's no Jerry Cantrell.

Well, would it be a problem to express that in the first paragraph?

Also, wouldn't they be reassured by detail, as it shows that this a subject to which you are very committed and that the research will be decent because you have a good background in it?

I'm going nowhere till august anyway I will take a proper look once I get back, as I am currently stuck at a station with lots of cancelled trains!

Oh OK, thanks! Have fun with trains. Somehow.

^^ oh yes, re: background. I think this is promising, as it shows I've done my work and know what I'm talking about. But I also am supposed ot be doing this project in GERMANY, so I don't want to be ramlbing on and on about French philosophers, and really need to highlight later why it's important to engage with the German tradition as well. (Which is I suppose my project... how to give a syncretic account of Sebald's ethics that comprehends both the Levinasian nature of their communication/experience and the Benjaminian/Adornian materialism, and concomitant historicism, which underlies about everything he writes.)

Do you know the person/people who will be reading your proposal? It might help you structure if you could find out something about them and fit it more to their style?

And I think detail is good (personally, anyway) because it *should* make everything easier to organise when you start the project.

No. Some "experts" that the DAAD assemble to judge the pertinence of my resarch and the necessity of going to Germany. I expect this means some committee of DAAD members + random academics, and can't guarantee they will really know what I'm getting at in this first part.

I have thus stuck a footnote on saying that parts 1 and 2 are long and detailed as an exposition of the problem, but that parts 3 and 4 will really explore the problem I've got to go and research.

TBH, I think more detail is always going to be better than less. I reckon it'll be ok, it's just taking waaaaay longer to write than I anticipated.

Well, it is very cold, which rather precludes most opportunities for fun (not that the two hot-pants teenagers next to me seem to have noticed. Are they insane?). However I do have a bag full of mini eggs and lemon 'n' scampi nik naks so if all else fails I shall eat them to conserve body heat. Yes.

Hmm, that's annoying. Still, I like the footnote idea. Footnotes look hot.