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[seiberwing]

You know what one of my least favorite phrases is?

"Strong first draft".

It's such a glaring dismissal of all the work I put into my thesis that it practically defines 'damning with faint praise. I did not set out to write a 'strong first draft'. I set out to write a good paper. With edits and reviews by my two readers it will hopefully become a better paper, but I did not write a strong first draft.

Ugh. Your edits don't even make sense, you're using LRS lingo from a class I took pass/fail six months ago. What in the sam hill is a CO position? I hope my notes are somewhere so I can look it up. I shouldn't have to go to outside sources to figure out what someone is talking about when they reference sentence structure.

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I mean, my life is going pretty well right now. Friends, fandom, first date, etc. But this bit just frustrates me.

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[fuyu-no-fuhei.livejournal.com]

It's kind of a random thing to say, too, "good first draft." Because obviously you thought you were writing a paper... it's not like you're hiding a pile of Good in a drawer in your desk, waiting until after the first draft to go ahead and use it in the final paper. If that made any sense. It probably didn't.

Bah. Hope it works out.

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

After I sent in the rough draft, but before I got the comments back, my dad suggested I go ahead and start polishing it.

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What did he think I was doing before?

[faithinfire.livejournal.com]

*hug* Bleh, that sucks. I wish I could offer some help, but I never really had to do the multi-draft essay thing at university...

...does it help to think of it as being exactly the same as getting your fic beta'd? Because I suppose technically it's the same principle... although it sounds like your supervisor is fail as a beta. :p

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm going to be taking my thesis advisor's word as gospel. But she had the courtesy not to use that phrase in favor of "good but needs edits, here are some suggestions and edits". Which is far more complimentary.

[ginga270.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I know what you mean. I've gotten the same response on art projects before and it's just the crappiest feeling in the world. There are so many other phrases that are better, like what your thesis advisor said. 'Good but here are some suggestions on improving it' is way more motivational than 'that's a strong first draft', IMO.

Anyway, sorry about that. :[ *hugs* I hope it all works out.

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

I've only read over them a little anyway. I'll do thesis advisor's ideas first, then see if preceptor fits into them.

[lady-angelina.livejournal.com]

"Strong first draft?" They might as well have done like Lisa Simpson's rival's dad and added, "Here is a ball. Perhaps you'd like to bounce it." =/ (In response to Lisa's attempt to do an anagram of Jeremy Irons, he said, "That was VERY GOOD for a FIRST TRY!")

But yeah, just ugh. D: *Offers hugs* Hopefully, you'll get better, more constructively worded feedback on the next review of your thesis.