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here’s a quick guide on how i proofread and edit my essays as an humanities undergrad! i tend to spend more time on research and editing and much less time on writing and my first drafts are often horrendous, so editing is really important for me :^)

i’ve also created guides on essay preparation, the 5-paragraph essay, how to research, and how to write essays. you can find all my other masterposts here.

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sometimes when we're stuck when learning a language, all we have to do is to stop learning and start enjoying the language instead. when i'm in that period, i resort into listening the songs in that language, especially the songs i enjoy.

this playlist has helped me nourish my kana and vocabulary memories while i'm away from the workbook and usual practice. so, i wonder if i can share this to you too and see if it can help.

the songs are not difficult to follow, mostly, rock-pop, ballad and funky pop; the songs we surely can sing along to. i believe this will help tonnes if you also want to practice your reading.

♡ good luck

#learn japanese #japanese langblr #saucy dog #higedan #my hair is bad #koresawa #centimillimental #back number #mrs. green apple #langblr tips #japanese langblr tips #learn japanese tips #Spotify

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Currently learning Thai.  Each letter of the alphabet has a word name, so I drew them into the letters to help me remember them.

#learn thai #mnemonics

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Describe your handwriting without using the words “messy” or neat”

#kids playground #no sharp edges

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okay I love this website

#ideas #teaching

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on things we can’t get back

mary oliver flare \ anne sextion a self-portrait in letters \ joseph lorusso \ leonard cohen lover lover lover \ anne sexton a self-portrait in letters \ barbara kroll \ anne sexton eighteen days without you: love poems \ celia paul

#web weaving

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i don't know who needs to hear this but

life is not all about academics. not about grades, paperworks, attending classes, not only about all that.

but life is also about taking break, dancing in the rain, aimless afternoon walk, daydreaming.

most of the times, life is about doing nothing but living the day.

#studyblr #reminder #mental health #self care #mental awareness #academia #stop overworking yourself #sky is pretty #take a good look at her

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I was wondering if you could recommend some critical essays about Virginia Woolf (about her writing in general or analysis of specific books). Thanks in advance and of course feel free to ignore this if it's too much trouble

oooh, love another reason to procrastinate!

okay i know you said essays, but i'm going to start with books (many of which contain essays!):

[these first ones are a bit outdated (to say the least), but i think it's also important to have a sense of the history of woolf criticism (if you're doing a deep dive)]

nancy topping bazin's virginia woolf and androgynous vision

elizabeth abel's virginia woolf and the fictions of psychoanalysis

virginia woolf's mrs. dalloway, ed. harold bloom

ellen tremper's "who lived at alfoxton?"

rachel bowlby's virginia woolf: feminist destinations

jane marcus's virginia woolf and the languages of patriarchy

and some more recent(-ish) stuff (in no particular order):

from virginia woolf: writing the world, ed. pamela l. caughie and diana swanson:

joyce e. kelley's "stretching our antennae': converging worlds of the seen and the unseen in 'kew gardens'"

elsa högberg's "virginia woolf's object-oriented ecology"

elisa kay sparks's "'whose woods these are': virginia woolf and the primeval forests of the mind"

gillian beer's virginia woolf: the common ground

jane goldman's the cambridge introduction to virginia woolf

naomi black's virginia woolf as feminist

trespassing boundaries: virginia woolf's short fiction, ed. kathryn n. benzel and ruth hoberman

emily blair's virginia woolf and the nineteenth-century domestic novel

palgrave advances in virginia woolf studies, ed. anna snaith

anna snaith's virginia woolf: public and private negotiations

and then some of my favorites:

judith allen's virginia woolf and the politics of language (esp. the chapter "interrogating 'wildness'")

bonnie kime scott's in the hollow of the wave: virginia woolf and modernist uses of nature

christina alt's virginia woolf and the study of nature

savina stevanato's visuality and spatiality in virginia woolf's fiction

justyna kostkowska's ecocriticism and women writers: environmentalist poetics of virginia woolf, jeanette winterson, and ali smith

virginia woolf and the natural world, ed. kristin czarneck and carrie rohman

nuala hancock's charleston and monk's house: the intimate house museums of virginia woolf and vanessa bell

lisbeth larson's walking virginia woolf's london: an investigation in literary geography

suzana zink's virginia woolf's rooms and spaces of modernity

maxwell bennett's virginia woolf and neuropsychiatry

reina van der wiel's literary aesthetics of trauma: virginia woolf and jeanette winterson

patricia moran's virgnia woolf, jean rhys, and the aesthetics of trauma

okay and for articles/essays/chapters:

stefanie heine's "forces of unworking in virginia woolf's 'time passes'" in textual cultures. vol. 12, no. 1 (spring 2019)

allison hild's "community/communication in woolf's 'the waves': the language of motion" in the journal of narrative technique. vol. 24, no. 1 (winter, 1994)

johanna x. k. garvey's "difference and continuity: the voices of mrs. dalloway" in college english. vol. 53, no. 1 (jan., 1991)

roberta rubenstein's "'i meant nothing by the lighthouse': virginia woolf's poetics of negation" in journal of modern literature. vol. 31, no. 4 (summer, 2008)

jack stewart's "a 'need of distance and blue': space, color, and creativity in to the lighthouse" in twentieth century literature. vol. 46, no. 1 (spring, 2000)

john lurz's "the binding of the waves" in the death of the book: modernist novels and the time of reading

christie purifoy's "melancholic patriotism and the waves" in twentieth century literature. vol. 56, no. 1 (spring 2010)

elicia clement's "transforming musical sounds into words: narrative method in virginia woolf's the waves" in narrative. vol. 13, no. 2 (may, 2005)

nuala hancock's "virginia woolf and gardens" in the edinburgh companion to virginia woolf and the arts

ewa płonowska ziarek's "woolf's aesthetics of potentiality" in feminist aesthetics and the politics of modernism

sam wiseman's "all boundaries are lost: travel, fragmentation and interconnection in virginia woolf" in the reimagining of place in english modernism

from virginia woolf and her female contemporaries:

jeffrey brown's "'a verbal life on the lips of the living': virginia woolf, ellen terry, and the victorian contemporary"

elisa kay spark's "twists of the lily: floral ambivalence in the work of virginia woolf and georgia o’keeffe"

patrizia a. muscogiuri's "reconfiguring the mermaid: H.D., virginia woolf, and the radical ethics of writing as marine practice"

kimberly engdahl coates's "mad women: dance, female sexuality, and surveillance in the work of virginia woolf and emily holmes coleman"

emily rials's "the weight of 'formal obstructions' and punctuation in mrs. dalloway and pointed roofs"

susan david bernstein's "reading woolf's roomscapes" in roomscape: women writers in the british museum from george eliot to virginia woolf

and these are so recent that i haven't even browsed yet, but i'm looking forward to them:

merve emre's the annotated mrs. dalloway

the oxford handbook of virgina woolf, ed. anne e. fernald

#recs

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i laughed too loud at these gosh! 😭🤣

some memes I made to express my current frustrations with academia feel free to add your own

#academic writing #meme

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Tip: to keep track of sources, make a document of citations for EVERY SOURCE you come across that could be relevant and where to find it as you find them

Ex.

It's okay to here use a citation generator if you think you'll remember to double check them. And see how there's a ILL Requested thing? (Interlibrary loan) as soon as I get it and download it I instead wrote "downloaded" or "printed." Keeping it as linked until you think you can use it works too, and you can always change it.

Then, I note this on the pages themselves but it may even be better to do it right in the document-- always include in text citations as you write, and then when you do, note the first time youve used that source. Like I said, I did it on the source itself, but to do it here I'd just use an asterisk at the beginning

Like that.

Then to make your work cited page, just copy and paste the citations you actually used, double check that you have everything, and you've got your sources.

Doing this along the way can definitely help to keep track of where your sources are and if you've used them in the paper (you can also check to see if you've used it yet so you know if you've listed all the names and can now et-al them)

(Ps. If you don't know how to hyperlink in Google docs:)

Hyperlinking:

Highlight word

Right/double click, go to the link option

Paste your link & hit apply!

#academic writing

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i don't know if you've heard about this but this website provides dual-subtitle anime!! you can even translate the word by just clicking it and it records your translation history!!

p.s. WHAT i love about this web especially is that the subtitle is adjustable. you can choose which to display: original subtitle-hiragana-katakana-romaji-eng. i usually go with ori-hiragana-eng. if you wanna train your katakana/hiragana, you can go with kata/hira-eng. what a way to study the kana!! had i known this long ago!!

#langblr #learn japanese #japanese langblr tips #日本語をべんきょ #langblr tips #OMG JUST WHOAAAA FINALLY #/excited noise #katakana #hiragana #anime #japanese #japanese language

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🌈choo choo, another supertip for language learners: IT IS OKAY to learn two languages consecutively, altogether even, especially languages that have significant similarities (East Asian languages, romance languages, etc.)

DO NOT cower when someone discourages you that it is impossible to do so. If you have the courage and the will, do it.

💫

but just, how to learn the languages BEST?

1. Pick a foundation.

If you're to learn multiple languages from the same family, start off studying one language first up until the A2 level, at least. This function as your foundation to further pave the road for other languages. In my case, I choose Korean as my device to approach Japanese (and Mandarin). The reason? Korean has the easiest writing system compared to the other two, this way I could get into the nitty gritty of the language faster. I occasionally familiarize myself with Hanja which is basically the adopted Mandarin character, which relates to Japanese Kanji.

2. Make use of the notes

While studying, I'm sure everyone has the book where you jot down the lessons (grammar, vocabs, expressions, etc.). When approaching the second language, don't let the first language notes go to waste. GO OVER them again, but this time, think about the counterpart in the second language. No English translating, no no, but try to find the equivalent/translation in your second language. If you like challenges, this is a good one for you.

💫

Oftentimes, when we learn double/multiple languages, the first/preceding language will be inevitably forgotten. And forgetting, is one painful moment in language learning. You can try this tips to avoid it. Worry not, there will be some interconnected relations between the languages, by the time you find it, you'll be superhappy.

#langblr #langblr tips #korean langblr #japanese langblr #studycitips #learn japanese #learn korean #studyblr

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Now that college students no longer have access to their libraries in the same way we used to and have to do most of our learning at home it would be just terrible if we all knew about https://1lib.eu/ a website which has books on basically every topic ever available for free including college textbooks. Imagine if people were researching their thesis without paying for it. 

DO NOT USE THIS SITE AND DEFINITELY DO NOT NOT TELL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT THIS SITE, THEY MIGHT START DOING THESIS RESEARCH FOR FREE OR JUST START READING BOOKS THEY FOUND ON THERE FOR FUN BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE INTERESTING. This would be terrible :( :(

Reblog to spread the word so that everyone knows to avoid this site!

#college needs #resources

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if you're looking for a new set of Japanese songs to listen to, I got you covered!

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top notes: youth delinquents, after school riding bicycle home with your friends, visiting Tokyo from Osaka and lost somewhere in Shinjuku

middle notes: soft japanese hiphop, "your music taste is good"

base notes: singable tunes, soft and mellow at the bottom, film-like nuance

#spotify playlist #japanese playlist #japanese songs #japanese langblr #playlist recommendation #spotify

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dear all my Learning Japanese fellow! I have a good news for you!

I found a website where you can read raw manga BUT it is bilingual! you can switch the language right when you're reading. I also usually use rikaikun to assist my reading here!

#learn japanese #japaneseblr #日本語 #日本語を勉強 #manga #raw manga #langblr #japanese langblr tips

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finish your draft. that is all you have to do.

#writeblr #writing tips #i mean it #you can always polish later

[studycian]

thank you so much for making this i- it changed my life in an instant <3

been compiling some links to fiction that are free to read online and easy to access - yeah it’s mostly short stories bc that’s what people are more happy to publish for free online as far as i can tell but there is SO MUCH good stuff out there!! 

some authors’ website bibliographies 

LOTS of short story fiction publications/online sites. a mix of well- known/established authors and emerging authors on a lot of them!!

& links to other recommendations articles & also some personal recs (yes, there’s only two lol, i will. add to it later.) 

link to the google doc 💛

#masterlist