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do you have a personal "technique" in writiing your papers?

HOWITIS

HOWITIS

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i am writing a paper now, which will end up being 17 pages (almost finished). do any of you have a technique for writing large papers, or papers in general? i usually find quotes to be helpful. quotes over 6 sentances are extremly helpful 🙂.
 
Yes, I have a general feel I write with 🙂. It's too late for me to describe it all that much now, but if I remember this thread I will return and write of it.

EDIT: LOL pulse8!
 
My technique was paying somone else to do it for me. That damn writing papers in college really started eating into my beer drinking time.
 
eh, a good teacher will not like it if you just quote a bunch of stuff instead of writing. a more subtle technique is mr. size 72 font 🙂
 
My techniques:

BS
Increased margins
BS
Instead of double spacing, do 2.07 spacing, or 1.07 instead of single spacing
BS
Use a bigger font
BS

BS'ing is generally the best way to do things 🙂
 
I joke around a lot when I write papers... I get good 'nuff grades on them (at least I did in HS, I've yet to write a paper in my 2 years so far of college)
 
My technique usually involves procrastinating until the last minute, then banging out the entire essay in a day or two. I have a 15 page paper do very soon, and I just started on it yesterday, although it was assigned 3 months ago. I must work well under pressure, because most of the time I get A's on my papers. Unfortunately, I have written a ton of papers in college even though I am business major. I always seem to get "that" professor that likes to assign large papers when they have absolutely nothing to do with the class.
 


<< plagurism >>




Stealing an idea from one book is called plagiarism, stealing ideas from many is called research.
 
stealing while acknowledging you are stealing is research, stealing without ackknowledgement is plagirism 🙂
 
they don't consider that plagiarism (taking ideas from many sources), because it actually requires knowledge and work to put the ideas together into one big one.
 


<< I get good 'nuff grades on them (at least I did in HS, I've yet to write a paper in my 2 years so far of college) >>



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Many billions of years ago, more accurately before time as you know it had even begun, i embarked on a project to predict, within the limits of my ability to follow a mere googleplex of cascading interactions, the temporally sequenced futures of numerous, what were then theoretical. though hypothetically conjureable megalocosmoses, and of particular relevence to you, one also, whose unique history actually plays out now in just such a reverberating concatenation of causes, reflecting, in retrospect, with the transformation of time into memories, as ineluctable crystalized effects amenable to analysis, a cosmos, by the way, that could be set in motion out of the timelessness by vocalizing a command, then tentative and unuttered, that had caught my fancy, and which, as one of a number of seductive candidates for 'prime cause', i had intended, by just this 'instant preplay' to more fully evaluate before entoning, though to elaborate any more fully, here, on it its genesis, despite the mathematically facinating details, we sahll forego as an expansion beyond the pale of contemporary human understanding, except, that is, to identify the subject loosely, in case i've completely lost you, as all that subsumable under the rubric, "Let there be light". Having formed, thus, early on, a so to speak, 'insider trader perspective' on the workings of all that unfolds, i find it but a small matter to elaborate in any desired detail, which for you here would translate as page length, autonomically and without effort, like the famous player piano of old, on any topic in general, and sufficient verbiage encluding the requisite magniloquence, all that is required and more.

In short, my dear friend, the best way to fill up pages is to have something to say.
 


<< stealing while acknowledging you are stealing is research, stealing without ackknowledgement is plagirism 🙂 >>


Not quite.

I got accused of plagiarism because I paraphrased, but apparently, by coincidence, I followed a few words word-by-word with the original text. So the marker told me that I should enclose them in quotations, even though I acknowledged the source.

What happened was that I used a statistic from one of the sources. And I wrote it in to my paper, but ended up sounding very similar to the way the original author worded. So.. in this case, I am safer to acknowledge the source AND enclose them in quotations.
 
Here is my research/writing technique:

1) I tend to give at least a full month to research and think over my topic carefully.
2) I think about it a lot over a long time. i.e. during bus rides
3) It works because I only choose courses through my passion. Therefore, my essay topics tend to match my interests very well.
4) I begin research. I go crazy. I get all kinds of sources at the library. Unfortunately, most libraries at UBC close before 11pm, with not 24-hour libraries. So I usually just take 3pm~11pm library trips. I work at the library so that helps too. I got microwaves, refrigerators, keys to access empty offices/rooms, etc.
5) I photocopy as many sources as I can. I highlight possible quotations in yellow. Then I highlight additional relevant sources from the footnotes/endnotes/bibliography with pink.
6) I find even more sources.
7) I research based on academic sources as much as possible.
8) Then I brainstorm and organize my thoughts. I usually take over a big whiteboard and just start writing stuff.
9) I type up an outline.
10) I write my paper. This process is not bad, as I'm pretty experienced in writing academic papers by now. It only gets better, too. 🙂 I personally prefer paraphrasing over the use of direct quotations. Paraphrases tend to flow better with my writing overall, although I did run into some problems, like being accused of plagiarism recently.

This is my ideal view of writing an academic paper. Unfortunately, it doesn't always work out this way, but I try my best to closely follow this system.
 
it's 7:19am.
been working on my essay since 2:30am

got one page done. 7 more to go. 2hrs left.

that's how you get things done!

remember one thing... editing is for wussies!
and another thing... anandtech must be open when writing your essay.
 
My personal favorite is to find two opposing quotes from different sources and discuss them at length, with lots of supporting quotes of course. Extra successful if you can find quotes about why both of them are wrong.
 


<< DONE!!!
I RULE!!!
YAH!!!

*ugh, me sleepy* >>


7:33 am for us pacific standard time people. Finished my comp sci homework at 6:50 am, went to eat breakfast, and here I am now. Me sleepy too.
 
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