The negative effects of writing academic papers

[carlfoxmarten]

I think I just figured out why I have such a hard time trying to write my resume.
Or anything else for that matter.

My seven years of university taught me that everything I wrote down for a paper of any sort MUST have evidence, sources, and citations to back it up, and if I couldn't prove it by citing someone else's work, I couldn't write it. Period.

This sort of thing appears to have caused me some problems in the resume and creative writing departments.
I have some sort of mental block about writing anything that isn't even partially cited.

Part of me knows that resumes don't need citations, but the problem is that it's not the part of me that actually tries to write them.

Now that I know this, however, I think I can figure out how to get around the problem.

Comments

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

Silly requirement. Our remote ancestors couldn't do that.

[carlfoxmarten]

And they were rather lucky for that too.

"Me Og. Me kill food. Kill food good."
"Og hired."

We've come a long way. Not sure if that's a good thing...

[thefoxaroo.livejournal.com]

It took me until fairly late in life to get *into* the habbit of doing that.

Does this affect other things you write? Forum & LJ posts and E-mails?

[carlfoxmarten]

I'm not sure if this is what affects those posts and emails, or the the other fact that the team-work courses I took heavily emphasized the fact that tone of voice has no impact on the printed word, so you have to be careful what you write.

Face-to-face, I can use my tone of voice to avoid sounding like a jerk (at least, I sound like a jerk in my head sometimes), but in text I try to be a lot more careful.
(sometimes when I'm really tired, I make a mistake and write something that is really something a jerk would say, which is another reason I try to be careful)

[thefoxaroo.livejournal.com]

Well the CTC forms are a place where one would never stand out as a jerk... Too much competition.

[carlfoxmarten]

I know you've had bad experiences with the people on that forum, but please remember that I'm still a part of it and do like most of them.

It's getting a slightly different feel as of late, especially since Doc Rat has obtained an official forum there, as well as having Freefall switch to using them for their primary forums due to The Nice closing down.

I respect your feelings regarding them, but please remember I'm still a part of them too.

[thefoxaroo.livejournal.com]

By saying "Too much competition" I certainly wasn't implying that any specific person is a jerk, and yes I have friends on the forums too.

...minus one who was attacked in spectacularly similar fashion to the way *I* was and no longer posts there. It doesn't take much to drop out of favour with them. How can you be so sure it wont happen to you?

[thefoxaroo.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity... my post above was made nearly a week and a half ago... has something happened recently that made you keen to respond now?

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

Think of the resume as your works cited list. This is where you're giving credence to the statement that "I deserve to work for you ^{[citation needed]}."

[carlfoxmarten]

That does help a bit, save for the fact that I don't have much in the way of "works" to cite. =>.<=

Maybe I should run through my transcript and summarize the work I did for all my courses...

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

Just list the key ones. Though it would not be a bad idea to make a CD or portfolio showing off some of your work, that you can leave with interviewers.