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Sunday, November 20, 2005
Whatever gets you through the night...
...besides caffeine, E.B. Banning (of U. of Toronto)’s Writing Archaeological Essays and Theses. Ironically, I came across this website while procrastinating. It’s easily the most useful shortlist of paper-writing tips that I’ve read and it’s specifically tailored to archaeology. So, if anyone was wondering what I’ve been staring at blankly for several minutes at a time over the past two days, now you know. My favorite tip: "Keep it simple and concise. Verbosity does not impress me", which has been the mantra of my own professor this semester. Methinks this has something to do with the fact that the longer an archaeologist is reading (or listening to) a boring, drawn-out paper the longer he or she must wait until the next cocktail.
Posted by Will at November 20, 2005 09:55 PM in Graduate School