As any teaching assistant could inform you, nobody wants to read essays by undergraduates. Nobody wants to read international relations essays by undergraduates. No undergraduates studying international relations want to spend their spare time writing essays that nobody will read. Nobody wants to write essays and then have them distributed as PDF files with little sense of ownership.
Let's look at what you see when visiting the site.
Abstract: "An analysis into the genesis and development of Cosmopolitan Thinking and to what degree it can cope with the realisation of its desired World Order as the very mechanisms it sought come to strangle its progress."
Word Count: ...
And right from the opening copy (which you quoted) the site markets itself as a celebration of being long, verbose, and obscure.
If undergraduates want to egotistically talk about international relations they can go to the inevitable debate section of virtually any phpBB forum. They're bound to find more vibrant, better-written, and better-argued essaying there.
The slight angle of being egotistical was included to almost make fun of the Journal itself: it's not meant to be a serious publication, per se, in that academics and others want to read it but merely a place for undergraduates to share with one another.
It is basically meant to be a site for undergraduates to read essays on topics that are similar to their own for their own understanding at their level: it's fairly common for undergraduates to let their undergraduate friends on the same course read their essays, especially around exam times. So while I appreciate that some embittered TAs might read essays with a sense of loathing for minimum wage waiting for the sweet release of deathm viewing this site, or any for that matter, from such a tainted perspective is somewhat unfair.
I appreciate your comments regarding the verbosity and obscurity of some of the text though and I'll look into making everything a bit clearer! :)
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As any teaching assistant could inform you, nobody wants to read essays by undergraduates. Nobody wants to read international relations essays by undergraduates. No undergraduates studying international relations want to spend their spare time writing essays that nobody will read. Nobody wants to write essays and then have them distributed as PDF files with little sense of ownership.
Let's look at what you see when visiting the site.
Abstract: "An analysis into the genesis and development of Cosmopolitan Thinking and to what degree it can cope with the realisation of its desired World Order as the very mechanisms it sought come to strangle its progress." Word Count: ...
And right from the opening copy (which you quoted) the site markets itself as a celebration of being long, verbose, and obscure.
If undergraduates want to egotistically talk about international relations they can go to the inevitable debate section of virtually any phpBB forum. They're bound to find more vibrant, better-written, and better-argued essaying there.
The slight angle of being egotistical was included to almost make fun of the Journal itself: it's not meant to be a serious publication, per se, in that academics and others want to read it but merely a place for undergraduates to share with one another.
It is basically meant to be a site for undergraduates to read essays on topics that are similar to their own for their own understanding at their level: it's fairly common for undergraduates to let their undergraduate friends on the same course read their essays, especially around exam times. So while I appreciate that some embittered TAs might read essays with a sense of loathing for minimum wage waiting for the sweet release of deathm viewing this site, or any for that matter, from such a tainted perspective is somewhat unfair.
I appreciate your comments regarding the verbosity and obscurity of some of the text though and I'll look into making everything a bit clearer! :)