I just did very poorly on my E301 - Literatures in English to 1600 test. I didn't get time to even bring in the critical essay into my own essay, and that was one of the chief components. What made it so hard was that the topic I chose, "Personal integrity and communal obligations," as it pertained to both Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, has little or no supporting discussion in the essays found in the Norton Critical Edition of Beowulf, at least that I could see. Sigh.
I hope the grade on my paper turned in last Friday fares better.
(It would feel so good to give my professor a software widget and ask him to write testcases for 50 minutes, but alas, it is me who must conform to the rigors of this tough-as-nails English class.)
Posted by stephend at September 28, 2005 11:25 AM