Assignment deadline looming and I’m self sabotaging

[TeenLifeMum]

I think everyone around me is fed up hearing about it so posting here.

I am halfway through a level 7 pgdip. I have a 2 part assignment due this week and have today and tomorrow to do it (I work full time). I’ve done part one but really battling with myself to write part two. I’m not quite clear in my head about the structure and references I want to use for one section of it. But, I literally have 1500 words to do. This is so achievable but I’m making it so much harder unable to focus.

I’ve written a bit of a plan so I’m going you head back to my study and write something. Even if it’s shit, it’s still better than the blank page I currently have. I’ve totally lost my enthusiasm and mojo. I like the learning… but not going to get addicted to academia!

i agree

getting 500 words per section of shit stuff is better than a blank page.

I find it far easier to edit it once written than write in first place.

@burnoutbabe thanks for replying. I’ve written 500 words (although the title is bloody long so takes up about 20 on its own 😂). I’ve shoe horned in a few references and am allowing myself a tea break before moving into the next section. I honestly just need to scrape a pass. The marks are not actually relevant to the final assessment so anything from 50 up is fine.

500 words feels a bit pathetic but it’s more than I had an hour and a half ago. I can never get going in the morning. If I can finish 500 more words and a basic framework for the final 500 before bed I’ll be happy. Also need to create a table for the appendix so I’ll do that as it’ll definitely demonstrate understanding the course so time consuming but worthwhile.

well done!

also stuff like bibliographys - they are not always required but a lot of markers like them so as they are "easy" to include (just time consuming) i always did them as they seemed like easy wins. And at least its working on the essay rather than not doing anything.

I needed at least 3 references in part one and more than 10 in part 2 so references very much essential for this.

I also put references in at the start or at least 20 xxxxxx in the reference field as they count in our word count so I want to make sure I have accounted for it roughly from the start.

Oh, our references don’t count in word count. I mean, where I talk about them does but the APA in brackets doesn’t count.

The citations in the text usually count in the word count but the reference list doesn't.

@VeterinaryCareAssistant the words in brackets don’t count at Exeter Uni… I’ve been on the course for 14 months and am many assignments in.

I would find that very irritating in terms of doing a word count. Most word processors would not be able to exclude

Yep, it’s annoying.