Freighting

Reading the chapter about “Freighting” in the book “Adios, Strunk and White. A Handbook for the new Academic Essay” by Gary and Glynis Hoffman, I was amused by the enjoyable explanation of the term “Freighting” and the usage in writing texts. From the beginning as a learning child that discovers the vast extent of meaning carrying phrases and the practice of implementing “Freighting” into academic sentences. I chose to try it out on the subject of “the end of semester”:

As the semester slowly comes to an end, each student being stressed by the vast amount of essays, that are written accompanied by all-nighter, coffee buzz, distress, disregards, relief, skepticism and finally pure hatred for the finished piece of work, and as well the exam stress, that feels for most students is the final stage of suffocation in between the effort to succeed and the grading pressure that comes along with the realisation of insecurity of the fact that the studied material for the seminar, lecture, course, or any other university related subject is even convenient, relevant, and related to the upcoming oral or written exam, presentation or term paper that must be passed; notably the aftermath of the sequence of studying a great amount of facts that most likely will be forgotten within a few weeks, is that to write term paper after term paper at home, in the library, outside, indoors, focussing on one subject for more than just a few days making your brain feel like it over read the piece of work for over a million time making you think that it doesn’t even have a statement because you feel lost between all the words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs that are supposed to underline your thesis and finally the effort to come to an end with your term paper and thereby end the semester.