Urge to maim rising
Feb. 26th, 2010 08:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
angryoldhagI sent in my master thesis proposal on 8 February. I re-sent it yesterday after not getting a reply. Today I got a rejection. All year I've been talking about linking creative writing techniques to analyzing contemporary novels. I've talked about it witha teacher, who thought the idea was very interesting.
Why was it rejected? One the one side I have 'too many questions' and on the other side he 'doesn't know how far the creative writing angle' will get me. Yes, you might say I'm a little ticked off. It's not his decission to say that I can't write. It's his call to hand my thesis over for supervision to someone.
So yes, my subject is definitely unconventional, at least for the way literature is taught here. That's why I chose it. Hundreds upon hundreds of books have been written on the subject. I have a source list of over forty sources. Trust me when I say that it will get very, very far.
I'm not going to give up on this. I'm going to by-pass him and go straight to the teacher who would have been my supervisor and ask her for help in re-drafting my proposal into something acceptable. This is not going to be like my bachelor thesis, where I chose a subject that didn't interest me because the same guy rejected my initial proposal. He can stuff it.
Why was it rejected? One the one side I have 'too many questions' and on the other side he 'doesn't know how far the creative writing angle' will get me. Yes, you might say I'm a little ticked off. It's not his decission to say that I can't write. It's his call to hand my thesis over for supervision to someone.
So yes, my subject is definitely unconventional, at least for the way literature is taught here. That's why I chose it. Hundreds upon hundreds of books have been written on the subject. I have a source list of over forty sources. Trust me when I say that it will get very, very far.
I'm not going to give up on this. I'm going to by-pass him and go straight to the teacher who would have been my supervisor and ask her for help in re-drafting my proposal into something acceptable. This is not going to be like my bachelor thesis, where I chose a subject that didn't interest me because the same guy rejected my initial proposal. He can stuff it.