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Ruby Granger #26 Ruby Granger is a bad writer
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I hated the slow mo ending, a bit too dramatic.Not gonna lie, as a lonely lesbian, this spoke to me.It’s quite poetic andI liked the video style.
In overall sweet but super wanna be deep teenager style. Not to mention I would never post something like that online for everyone to see.
Still much better content than Ruby's and that says a lot.
Nah I don't think she is capable of realising sth like that. She only mentioned it because she read it somewhere by chance and wanted to show off her "extra knowledge" no matter how useless for the actual thesis topic it is. Either way her writing is basically rewriting what someone else wrote, she's uncapable of any original thought or argument.
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I actually did find that passage relatively okay but idk if it's just me but I wish she would have chosen another topic, anything but Lewis Carroll. This whole child muse thing given the history of Carrol is making me a lil uncomfortable
Before she started to work on her diss she shared some of alternative topics and idk I just think she could have done a way better job with Emily Dickinson.
I think the main problem that we can all agree on and others have pointed out: this isn't a Literature dissertation.
The muse point was interesting, but again: not really a Literature dissertation (not the way she was using it, at any rate).
She HAS to be penalised for that, surely? Like even IF her writing was actually coherent etc, the fact that she has written a history come sociology essay for her final Literature degree?
The muse point was interesting, but again: not really a Literature dissertation (not the way she was using it, at any rate).
She HAS to be penalised for that, surely? Like even IF her writing was actually coherent etc, the fact that she has written a history come sociology essay for her final Literature degree?
Totally agree! That advisor who told her she should write about Carroll's letters instead of Dickinson's really did her a disservice there, imho. Then again maybe Ruby just did a bad job of pitching her proposed Dickinson project and that's why they tried to redirect her to sth else, who knows.I actually did find that passage relatively okay but idk if it's just me but I wish she would have chosen another topic, anything but Lewis Carroll. This whole child muse thing given the history of Carrol is making me a lil uncomfortable
I don't think even she knows. It's just a kitchen sink of tangential nonsense.
Near as I can interpret from all the bits she's shown, her dissertation is something like:
- How Lewis Carroll's letters are works of literature in their own right and a VARRY KOIND gift to others.
- [Irrelevant tangent about nonsense poetry.]
- All letters are gifts.
- [Irrelevant tangent about the Coronavirus.]
- Victorians sent lots of letters and had lots of rules of ATTICAT for correspondence.
- [Irrelevant tangent about the Victorian era unrelated to letters.]
- Society also has many different cultures of gift-giving.
- [Irrelevant tangent about Cicero.]
- Gifts are VARRY KOIND.
- [Irrelevant tangent about bereavement correspondence.]
- Kindness is VARRY important
- [Irrelevant tangent about genetic editing.]
- LATTERS are THE MOST MOSTLIEST FORM OF KOINDNESS.
- [Irrelevant tangent about literary dedications.]
- Lewis Carroll was a VARRY KOIND MAN and also VARRY IMPORTANT.
[Irrelevant tangent about the history of the artistic muse]Section deleted.- [Irrelevant, inaccurate tangent about the history of Alice in Wonderland with no mention of Lewis Carroll being a diddler of children.]
- In conclusion, KOINDNESS IS VARRY GUD AND LATTERS ARE VARRY KOIND AND LEWIS CARROLL SEND LYOTS OF LATTERS AND THAREFORE LEWIE WAS A VARRY GUD AND KOIND MAN. He inspires MANNY PEEPUL TYOO BEE KOIND TYOO THIS VARRY DAY, WITH COMPANIES LOIYKE PONKIN' PRODOCKTIVTEE OFFERING VARRY KOIND PRODUCTS AND PRICES. THE AND.
Ruby can't even figure out how capital letters, punctuation and consistent titling work, there's no way she'll be able to have a coherent, intelligent and literate thesis run for 10,000 words.
The titles of the three videos in this series:
'Study With Me (a week of daily study with mes) + giveaway'
'a productive study day #2'
'A Study Day with Me + sharing an extract I had to cut
'What a dunce.
Ruby has definitely been reading Tattle again. @Griftwood mentioned the blurring of pages, but the timelapse footage is full of contemptuous, demonic glares at the camera, as though she knows we're going to be going through frame by frame.
It also does nothing to convince people that she's remotely on-track with getting this handed in and having it be in anything resembling readable quality, let alone worthy of the First she's expecting.
(Pictured: Ruby doing "a littull bit mwoar wahhrk" on her final assignments", which looks suspiciously like a lot of last minute panicked rewriting.)
She casually mentions that she's just going through and noting things which she still needs to research, or things she's added which are unsubstantiated. "Because sometimes as you're reading it, you realise you've written something which maybe you should cite your source for."
I don't know what's more hilarious:
- That Ruby is on at least her 8th draft and still hasn't cited her references.
- That Ruby is 8+ drafts deep and is offering up something as integral as the idea of citing your sources as a hidden secret to essay-writing.
- That Ruby talks about this in the 2nd person, stating that "YOU" are doing these things, as though she thinks that bleeping up her dissertation to this extent and not bothering to research and cite references throughout her entire dissertation until the last second is perfectly natural and done by everyone else, too.
Her process only gets more ludicrous. Rather than just finally edit her bleeping dissertation once and for all, Ruby decides that she's going to procrastinate and overcomplicate things even more by annotating her entire disseration for the 372,946th time and colour-coding the whole thing by category of what needs changing.
And, of course, she has to introduce redundant planners and to-do lists into the mix, too.
Not only is this entire endeavour completely unnecessary when she could've just read through her dissertation and edited as she went, this whole thing is rendered especially pointless because it's only a three-colour system:
1. Sections where Ruby has poorly phrased things (I can't see how the whole damn document's not coated in layers of pink pen given Ruby's illiteracy and fragile grasp of the English language).
2. Sections that need researching.
3. Sections that need moving to earlier or later in the essay.
This is yet more of Ruby's productivity placebo busywork - adding extra steps to accomplish nothing but wasted time, but because she added an extra step, she felt like she did more. All this when she could've just saved a new draft on her laptop and edited it directly as she went.
And pro-tip: if you can yank an entire section of your dissertation and drop it in a different place without turning the whole thing into a disjointed, directionless mess, then it's already a directionless, disjointed mess.
"And then I was feeling a bit foggy-headed, syo I went outside for a walk."
Let's recap Ruby's food for this day.
Breakfast:
A ghastly slurry of watery milk, carrot shavings, a third of a chopped banana and some unidentifiable slop in the corner. It's barely enough to fill a quarter of a small bowl.
A "snack":
A bleeping ramekin full of cereal, yoghurt and frozen bleeping peas.
After feeling light-headed and foggy-brained, the sum total of what she eats is this:
Four bleeping grapes and a digestive biscuit.
Of course your brain's turned to sludge, Ruby. You aren't eating anything. Not only that, you're still encouraging others to follow your lead and imitate your dangerous habits, you utterly despicable cretin.
Breakfast:
A ghastly slurry of watery milk, carrot shavings, a third of a chopped banana and some unidentifiable slop in the corner. It's barely enough to fill a quarter of a small bowl.
A "snack":
A bleeping ramekin full of cereal, yoghurt and frozen bleeping peas.
After feeling light-headed and foggy-brained, the sum total of what she eats is this:
Four bleeping grapes and a digestive biscuit.
Of course your brain's turned to sludge, Ruby. You aren't eating anything. Not only that, you're still encouraging others to follow your lead and imitate your dangerous habits, you utterly despicable cretin.
This puddle-brained dimwit then goes on a ramble about how much she loves bluebells, and in predictable Ruby fashion, proclaims them to be quite possible her FAVOURITE flower, because she likes that it's only here for a short time. I mean, that's the case with most flowers. But childhood's only there for a short time, too, and Ruby loves that so much she's spend the past decade trying to extend it, so maybe this is an extension of that.
She says she spent some time watching study vlogs (because nothing she claims to do can stray too far from her superficial academia obsession).
"I HONESTLY watch these ALL THE TIME," she lies, claiming to get an "AXTRA BYOOST OF MYOTIVATION" from them. At the myoment I'm loving 'love, nika''s videeyowsss, they're varry gud."
Now that's the face of someone loving what they're watching and imbued with a sudden burst of motivation.
Ruby moans that she's had to cut a big section about the history of the muse in Greek mythology. She says it's really painful to have to cut it after working on it so much and spending so much time researching it. Somehow it didn't occur to her the second she started researching it, or at any point until now, that this has no relevance to her dissertation degree in any way. But the same's true of most of the crap she's shoehorned in.
"And THANNN I did a littull bit mwoar wahhrk on chapter tyoo of moiy dissertationnnn AND THAN I did a littull bit mwoar wahhrk I think this toiyme on the introductionnn tyoo moiy dissertationnn--[awkward cut mid-breath]"
This is a complete thing that she says. Her brain, feeble as it was, is gone.
She downplays this as a "littull bit mwoar wahrrk" to make it seem like this is a mere drop in the bucket compared to her immensely productive achievements. Look at the bleeping state of that, in what should be the last draft. What a mess. It's wonderful.
"haha?" One day, Ruby will learn to human. In the meantime, she isn't a fan of things that taste like anything, but she is a fan of replacing meals with water.
After failing to eat again, Ruby states that the key to motivation when your brain is flagging is just to change study locations. Why not go study in your student kitchen or family kitchen? You know, places were there is definitely no thoroughfare of people wandering through and it absolutely won't distract and inconvenience everyone involved. Speaking of inconveniencing people, why not swap rooms/desks with your sibling? (There are all genuine suggestions that she offers.)
Ruby moves to one of her 4,963,595 musky, dust-filled spare rooms full of junk shop clutter and the sudden surge of motivation is immediately evident:
Daddy Bones can be seen angrily attacking the grounds of the estate with a strimmer, and it's clear that having Ruby back home indefinitely is causing him to go full Jack Torrance.
Ruby relocates to the kitchen and, again, motivation is visibly off the charts:
Ruby's mother has also seemingly taken to the idea of replacing food with work; a 'Clare's Cafe' menu on the wall outlines a to-do list of household chores that she to-didn't.
The Roomba has been crossed off and given a tick, replaced with 'hoover', which goes unchecked. This is the Roomba that Ruby's mum drowned while flooding the kitchen, so it's no shock that it's out of action.
She also writes out chickens as "chooks" - oh, what a lark, to pretend to be one of the common folk while voting Tory and living with a tax-dodging crook and a charity thief!
Another day down and she's still no closer to salvaging this disaster.
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This is what’s confusing me. I’ll admit that my academic background is not literature at all and also, trying to be fair to Ruby, we’ve only seen snippets of what she’s doing but I’m really struggling to see how you could write about Carroll’s letters in the way that Ruby appears to be doing and call that a dissertation for an English Literature degree. She seems to be focusing on this idea of letters as gifts but Jesus H. Christ on a bike, Carroll seems to me to be a very problematic person to take that approach with. I struggle to believe that if that is the angle she’s taking, she isn’t going to have to at least mention the issues there.
It’s almost as if she’s chosen this topic to justify her own likes and behaviours without thinking very deeply at all ‘I like writing letters, I think that letters are a gift and that’s what I’ll write my dissertation about. Oh and Lewis Carroll liked writing to young people and sharing his writing as a gift and I like writing for younger people too, so I’ll make him the focus of my dissertation!’
To be fair, English literature as a field of study has undergone/is undergoing a rethink of what constitutes "the literary" and letters are definitely fair game. A lot of work on the Pastons, for example, comes from literary studies, or the edited collection Letter-Writing Among Poets (2015). More concerning imo is that she doesn't really have a clear argument about what Carroll's letter-writing practices say about him as an author, or about Victorian epistolary culture.
If she does post a reacting to the dissertation grade video this thread will be LIT, I cannot wait
I can't comprehend how she's even able to cut out whole paragraphs/do huge rephrasings/more research at this point because her word count will be all over the place. This close to my deadline I was shaving things down like replacing "in spite of" to "despite" to dip below the word count which I was about 10 words over. I can guarantee she's still a long way over it if she's cutting whole sections
Haha, I've actually done all these suggestions. (Student kitchen barely gets used and at most I've seen people come to make themselves a cup of coffee and my siblings and I only swap round during exam season if we're both wanting to do a mock, so I'm lucky that it doesn't actually inconvenience everyone, of course if it was, I wouldn't be doing it). I'm just shocked she doesn't mention libraries? Is she just not on campus enough to remember there's a location that is designated for studying?
EDIT: Are there any rules that say you're not allowed to share what your dissertation is about? The only explanation for such a lack of an overarching argument that I can think of (other than Ruby being Ruby, which seems good enough to me) is that she's choosing not to share, for one reason or another.
She actually prefers getting in everyone else's way at home and in coffee shops, it's her
main character momentHonestly, what is the point in any of these videos? It's so obvious she isn't getting any enjoyment out of it. All they do is promote toxic productivity and pointless busywork, and Ruby is in so deep that I'm sure she would defend them til her last breath. The only answer can be the money and/or pressure from management.
Take. A. Break. Step away from social media. Discover who you are without it, work on yourself. If she's really taking a gap year next year, the best thing she could ever do is figure out who she is outside of academia and social media and actually reach a physically and mentally healthy space.
It's tough having such a public, prominent social media presence at a young age in ways you don't even realise when you're right in the middle of it. You get stuck in the place you first became or well-known or experienced success. The answer, however, isn't to throw yourself even further into the black hole; the answer is to find peace outside of the Internet, to not tie your entire self-worth and being into it.
take a break, Ruby, please! It's the best thing you will ever do!
Take. A. Break. Step away from social media. Discover who you are without it, work on yourself. If she's really taking a gap year next year, the best thing she could ever do is figure out who she is outside of academia and social media and actually reach a physically and mentally healthy space.
It's tough having such a public, prominent social media presence at a young age in ways you don't even realise when you're right in the middle of it. You get stuck in the place you first became or well-known or experienced success. The answer, however, isn't to throw yourself even further into the black hole; the answer is to find peace outside of the Internet, to not tie your entire self-worth and being into it.
take a break, Ruby, please! It's the best thing you will ever do!
As far as I know, none at all. When Jack Edwards did his video about his dissertation I remember him saying quite a lot about his argument. Me and my friends used to all swap dissertations pre-submission for proof reading, and to get inspiration for structure if we were struggling. The topics of people's dissertations were spoken about pretty casually in seminars as well. Sometimes I wonder if Ruby refusing to say anything about her dissertation content harks back to the primary school attitude of "Someone else might steal my idea!".
From the information we have been able to find out about her dissertations via her videos it definitely doesn't seem to be a Literature dissertation, like sure the letters are important and can be classed as literature but she's literally submerging her thesis in pointless secondary material and not focusing in on the literature, but as we have seen before, this is the way Ruby works. She can't form an opinion of her own and is incapable of analysing a text without the help of other resources. Deciding to choose Carroll's letters as the main focus sure is a baffling choice and I really don't know how her tutors didn't warn her against this choice, unless they did and she decided to go ahead with anyway because she thinks she's always right. I've only very recently handed in my own Literature dissertation and everyone on my course was advised to write about two or three primary texts and pick a broad enough topic to write about. Ruby hasn't done this and this is why her Literature dissertation appears to be more of a history/sociology mishmash. Like I'm sure Carroll's letters are important but how much can you really analyse without going off on a tangent like Ruby has evidently done?? It's an absolute mess, she has no argument and is completely reliant on secondary material. If she could construct an opinion/argument of her own a dissertation exploring how two or three texts explore the theme of Victorian Girlhood would have been great, but alas she can't and now she's writing a mess of a dissertation which appears to have a very small focus on Literature.
Honestly, I wonder where Ruby's supervisor fits into all of this. What Ruby's doing - or rather, failing to do - is to write a cultural history of the reception of Lewis Carroll's letter writing, which would be a terrific topic for a PhD thesis and beyond but surely nothing for a BA thesis. Did her supervisor comment on the sheer scale of Ruby's thesis at all and did Ruby ignore them? Or does Ruby think she's beyond supervision and went for a trainwreck of a dissertation anyway because she's the self-proclaimed Wunderkind of literary studies?
*By the way, it annoys me to no end the way Ruby proclaims she's writing a dissertation. You're an undergrad writing a thesis for your Bachelor's degree. No need to get all huffy and puffy about it!
*By the way, it annoys me to no end the way Ruby proclaims she's writing a dissertation. You're an undergrad writing a thesis for your Bachelor's degree. No need to get all huffy and puffy about it!
Fair enough, if it works, it works! Although in Ruby's case it's just musical chairs to keep her from focusing on anything for more than 15 minutes.
She pretty much never set foot in the library until she was criticised for it here (she kept moaning that public studying was too loud and distracting while avoiding the library at all costs), then she made a point to show herself in the library for a few minutes and quickly came up with an excuse why she needed to leave ("AXATAR'S WiFi doesn't work on my laptop for some reason!"). The library's full of people studying smarter and harder than her, which she won't like. Instead she takes up a table in coffee shops where nobody's studying and buys the smallest thing possible or nothing at all.
There's no rules against sharing a dissertation subject. Ruby has delusions of grandeur and thought she'd be handing in a dissertation of such an advanced level that she was wondering out loud how it would "impact future scholarship". So it's possible that she thought someone would steal her idea (the irony!) but I honestly don't think she's had a clear thesis beyond "Somethingsomething Lewis Carroll's Letters" up until very recently, if she even has one now.
Absolutely, I think letters can also prove vital for specific literary research and I'd say most written texts can be fair game as long as there is a logical reason behind the choice. I think what bothers me most is that her dissertation seems so directionless, there seems to be no rhyme or reason behind why she decided to focus on these letters specifically besides "I love Victorian letter-writing etiquette" and "I ALWAYS make sure to post seven letters a week". Also, the fact that she was researching Bakhtin's polyphony of the novel at some point which the author strictly applies to Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov (which just sounds like another Greek muse excursion but in a completely different direction) - it is just such a puzzling experience to witness.
That Mother Granger's roomba really threw me off for a moment, because of this forum I thought she was referring to Ruby for a second
To be fair, that is generally what it’s called in the UK - typically you write a long essay and call it a ‘dissertation’ as the culmination of your undergrad studies. The only time I’ve ever heard people talk about theses tends to be for a PhD, it’d be strange to hear an undergrad talking about their thesis.
The StudyTubers all seem to make very heavy weather of it though. When I was at uni, yes it was a longer piece of writing but it was just the equivalent of a single module - or it was possibly the same as a double module, I can’t honestly remember but whilst it was important it wasn’t this massive production, it was just a longer essay. I remember it being the case that years ago if you didn’t write a dissertation you couldn’t get an honours degree (at least that was the case at my uni) but that changed a long time ago and it was just another module that you could take, or not - what ever worked for you.
I think this is a re-tread of that first-year failure where she ignored all the clear essay instructions, wrote a massive amount of irrelevant drivel against her tutor's guidance, got a deservedly lower grade and then cried on the internet that she was punished for "experimenting" and "taking chances". That was probably the last time she wrote an essay for herself before just ripping off everyone else's ideas, so it's fitting that she's gone off-piste again when there's nobody to copy from.
Her dissertation supervisor has probably told her at every turn to rein it in and pare her mountain of nonsense down to a clear and simple argument. But Ruby never listens and has her heart set on delivering a Masters/PhD-level work, despite a clear lack of intelligence and ability, and it seems like she's been showing variations of the same nonsense at every supervisor meeting. I guess there's only so many times a tutor can try to steer someone onto the right track before realising they're not listening.
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