Paper, Schmaper.

From the title of this post, it may or may not be obvious that I'm supposed to be writing a paper right now. So, you ask, how come I am not? Because I don't feel like it. I'm frustrated and annoyed, and sick, too. I can't seem to stop coughing, and my chest feels like it's on fire. I should get an extention, dammit, but it's too late now. Besides, the paper's only 6 pages, which isn't very much. It' s just that this professor and I have different views of how papers should be written. She seems to be more of a "black and white" type of person, asking us to divide our papers into sections with subheadings. In my entire post-high school academic career, I have never written a paper like that. My papers tend to be one coherent narrative, in which I am able to include all the required information, but still am able to be somewhat creative about my approach. I am used to answering all the questions in an order that makes sense to me, which usually means blending topics together. This doesn't mean that I leave anything out, it just means I am not a linear thinker. This professor, however, seems to be a linear thinker. I don't understand how I am supposed to divide this paper up into separate sections. Fer cryin' out loud, it's a paper about attachment theory! It's all interconnected! It doesn't lend itself very well to divisions. I can't figure out how to write about it that way without being redundant, because everything in the theory has to do with everything else. You can't talk about the behavior of the secure base without talking about the resulting attachment styles, and you can't talk about attachment styles without talking about the secure base behaviors that created them! It just doesn't make sense. None of the articles or books I've read divide it up this way. Hell, I think I'll just be a rebel. Maybe I'll just have two sections: Attachement Theory and Its Relevance to Social Work and My Attachment Style. That way, at least I'll be sort of doing what she wants.

Ha Ha. I think I won. :)