UGGGHHHH.... I've been writing a research proposal for one of my grad school classes for what seems like the last 72 hours straight. I may just keel over from an overdose of monotony. Why can't scholarly types write with some personality? Every paragraph I've read and written feels like sandpaper against my brain.
How about instead of this:
...Though a large amount of learning comes from within an individual’s own experiences and immediate community, vicarious abilities allow people to learn beyond their own experiences. “A vast amount of information about human values, styles of thinking, and behavior patterns is gained from the extensive modeling in the symbolic environment of the mass media” (Bandura, 2001, p. 271). Whereas learning by doing relies upon repeated experiences in which an individual’s actions are changed via trial and error, observational learning allows for the transmission of new ways of thinking and/or behaving to a multitude of people simultaneously.
We write this:
Guy: I think we should break up after we eat this cheese.
Girl: I knew you were going to say that.
Guy: How?
Girl: Because that's exactly what that one guy on that one show said to that one girl that I totally want to be like.
Guy: I've never seen that show, but when you talk like that it makes me want to claw my eyes out.
Girl: That's because you watch too much Animal Planet.
Guy: Here, take my cheese. I've gotta go. Um, now.
That's terrible dialogue, but it beats the bahoonies out of everything else I've read in the last three days. Dear sweet goddess of fiction, please rescue me. Stat.
Oh! Almost forgot. In my scholarly pursuits, I ran across this interesting site. It's been the one bright moment in my three days of drudgery. Very cool.
http://www.futureofthebook.org.uk/blake/book.html
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How about instead of this:
...Though a large amount of learning comes from within an individual’s own experiences and immediate community, vicarious abilities allow people to learn beyond their own experiences. “A vast amount of information about human values, styles of thinking, and behavior patterns is gained from the extensive modeling in the symbolic environment of the mass media” (Bandura, 2001, p. 271). Whereas learning by doing relies upon repeated experiences in which an individual’s actions are changed via trial and error, observational learning allows for the transmission of new ways of thinking and/or behaving to a multitude of people simultaneously.
We write this:
Guy: I think we should break up after we eat this cheese.
Girl: I knew you were going to say that.
Guy: How?
Girl: Because that's exactly what that one guy on that one show said to that one girl that I totally want to be like.
Guy: I've never seen that show, but when you talk like that it makes me want to claw my eyes out.
Girl: That's because you watch too much Animal Planet.
Guy: Here, take my cheese. I've gotta go. Um, now.
That's terrible dialogue, but it beats the bahoonies out of everything else I've read in the last three days. Dear sweet goddess of fiction, please rescue me. Stat.
Oh! Almost forgot. In my scholarly pursuits, I ran across this interesting site. It's been the one bright moment in my three days of drudgery. Very cool.
http://www.futureofthebook.org.uk/blake/book.html