Beneath the Wraps

             My brother Steven has always been well read.   Long before Google and the Internet, Steven was avid at finding reference materials.   He read about various subjects until there was nothing left to research.   He has always been well informed about so many subjects – except maybe the Pan Am Conferences of 1910 – not even a subject of his choosing but rather one that had been assigned to him in school.   The encyclopedia included perhaps an entire paragraph for the Pan Am Conference of 1932 or 36 or some year in that decade.   I can’t remember.   But it was a couple of decades after the assigned year which had even less documented.           I don’t recall what the word count was assigned to the students or if they all had the same topic or exactly how it worked.   Steven was miffed as he’s been required to come up with more information that he could find. ...

The topic for this mod's final assessment is to write 1000 to 1250 words on the topic: major disclosure and conceptual objectives of  consolidated  financial statements.  How in the world does is an instructor able to get through 15 - 30 assessments.   The topic alone - let alone an entire paper - is enough to put me to sleep.   I know that there are instructors who might not even read the paper, just scan through it, make certain that everything meets APA standards - does not seem to matter what the contents are.   I hate that!   What difference does my APA paper make if I don't understand the material I'm supposed to write about?! My current instructor doesn't seem like a stickler about keeping the paper in third person and boring.   Thus I am keeping it in first person - unless he says otherwise.   The lecture is at 10:30.   Hopefully there will be enough insight that I will be abl...