I HATE WRITING PAPERS!!

Trytostaydead · Post by **Trytostaydead** » 2003-03-09 09:21pm

Goddammit!

Through highschool, we were taught to be CONCISE and write short papers. In my first year english class in high school that supposedly was supposed to teach us how to write science papers, same thing applied.

NOW, I'm given an assignment for 10 pages. I'm stuck on page two because I've about said everything I need too. @#$!! $#@%$#%!!!

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-03-09 09:23pm

Trytostaydead wrote:Goddammit!

Through highschool, we were taught to be CONCISE and write short papers. In my first year english class in high school that supposedly was supposed to teach us how to write science papers, same thing applied.

NOW, I'm given an assignment for 10 pages. I'm stuck on page two because I've about said everything I need too. @#$!! $#@%$#%!!!

Just find enough material for 2 more pages and BS the remaining 6.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-03-09 09:25pm

Add more justifications and pieces of evidence for your conclusion. If it's a paper that requires real work (eg- a lab report), you need to run more tests, collect more data, and make lots of large graphs.

Post by **fgalkin** » 2003-03-09 09:26pm

Trytostaydead wrote:Goddammit!

Through highschool, we were taught to be CONCISE and write short papers. In my first year english class in high school that supposedly was supposed to teach us how to write science papers, same thing applied.

NOW, I'm given an assignment for 10 pages. I'm stuck on page two because I've about said everything I need too. @#$!! $#@%$#%!!!

I've got the opposite problem. If I'm writing something, I can't seem to get it under 5 pages.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2003-03-09 09:28pm

Also, make the paper wordier, and increase the font size by half a point.

Hotfoot · Post by **Hotfoot** » 2003-03-09 09:30pm

Pad the paper with quotations that support your position, then cleverly restate what the cited work says. If that doesn't help, ramble on and add some personal anecdotes.

That, or turn in the paper at 3-4 pages, then have a discussion with the professor afterwards if he has any complaints. (Warning: only applicable if your professor is open to such discussion. If you're in a 100+ student lecture, you're on your own.)

Hotfoot · Post by **Hotfoot** » 2003-03-09 09:34pm

Darth Yoshi wrote:Also, make the paper wordier, and increase the font size by half a point.

In that vein, also experiment with other fonts than Times New Roman. Some fonts appear roughly the same, but take up more space, thus making the paper appear longer than it actually is.

Pablo Sanchez · Post by **Pablo Sanchez** » 2003-03-09 09:35pm

The mantra I learned for such purposes:

Restate, reword, restate, reword... ad infinitum. I was usually good enough with a twist of the English language to fool my teachers, and if they were perceptive enough to catch me, they were usually smart enough to water down the required length.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2003-03-09 09:40pm

I took the tatic of making a complentry "Bullshiting package"

Professer Y, Says write a ten page paper on somthing that takes me roughly two pages to state clearly and completly got what I like to call the bullshit package

A per-written 20 page long document filled with nothing other than restaments and word choice flipings that was so vaugly worded as it could be applied to anything

If they said they would mark off for brevity, I mearly reached into my bags whiped out the Bullshiting package and staple it on

For extra effect on thos proffesors who were either asses or had a sense of Humor I did it in Mid-Air with a staple gun

j/k

Trytostaydead · Post by **Trytostaydead** » 2003-03-09 09:41pm

Unfortunately, I cannot resort to such ploys. Font size will have to be strictly regulated at any rate, and so will margins. Quotations have almost no place in this paper. It's a science paper. Only numbers and postulates. Graphs and pictures are to be submitted seperately. God almighty.

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2003-03-09 09:43pm

Trytostaydead wrote:Goddammit!

Through highschool, we were taught to be CONCISE and write short papers. In my first year english class in high school that supposedly was supposed to teach us how to write science papers, same thing applied.

NOW, I'm given an assignment for 10 pages. I'm stuck on page two because I've about said everything I need too. @#$!! $#@%$#%!!!

Welcome to college, my friend.

Been through two semesters of English (101 and 102) and am currently on my English 231... We had a paper due every week, anywhere from 5 pages to 8 pages, or longer, depending on the subject.

Writing a paper in there as we speak, as a matter of fact.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-03-09 09:45pm

Get more evidence.

If there isn't, just constantly restate your opinion in every conceivable way.

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2003-03-09 09:45pm

Half a point usually isn't noticeable, and you can chalk it up to you particular printer or word processor (I printed the same document, word for word, on MSWorks and Wordpad, and the length was different). But like Hotfoot said, experiment with the different font types. And make it really really wordy to compensate.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2003-03-09 10:03pm

Take lessons from the Darkstar school of debating. You too can learn to write 100,000 words of pure nothingness! See Mike's RSA Hatemail page for more details on how it's done.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-03-09 10:15pm

Let me guess, it's due tomorrow? Luckly for me I still have 1 year and a third of that left before I have to accually work on my papers.

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-03-09 10:18pm

Increase the margin, make the line spacing like 1.1, add font size a little.

You'll just have to learn to be wordier...

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2003-03-09 10:19pm

aerius wrote:Take lessons from the Darkstar school of debating. You too can learn to write 100,000 words of pure nothingness! See Mike's RSA Hatemail page for more details on how it's done.

Um...I think he actually needs his brain intact right now. Telling him to read through DarkStar's stuff won't help him too much, except for giving him a legitimate reason to plead insanity.

Trytostaydead · Post by **Trytostaydead** » 2003-03-09 10:20pm

anarchistbunny wrote:Let me guess, it's due tomorrow? Luckly for me I still have 1 year and a third of that left before I have to accually work on my papers.

LOL, how'd you guess? But I believe I can argue for an extension..

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-03-09 10:45pm

Welcome to the world of college

I feel your pain, I've had the same problem, but mostly with things like English or Film or Drama papers where I found that bullshit was my greatest ally. If it's a science paper I'd take Mike's advice. Good luck, and if you pull an all-nighter coffee is your friend.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-03-09 10:48pm

Exonerate wrote:Increase the margin, make the line spacing like 1.1, add font size a little.

You'll just have to learn to be wordier...

I can usually space it to 1.5 without it looking too bad.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2003-03-09 10:48pm

Have 4 essays to edit for english tomorrow. Only 1 partially done as of now. I CAN'T STOP READING THIS BOARD!!

Is there any way to temporarily block someone's access to this site, including not being able to read anything?

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-03-09 10:54pm

Pu-239 wrote:Have 4 essays to edit for english tomorrow. Only 1 partially done as of now. I CAN'T STOP READING THIS BOARD!!

Is there any way to temporarily block someone's access to this site, including not being able to read anything?

Ask Mike for a temp ban.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-03-09 11:01pm

If he has that little self control, he needs more help than a tempban.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-03-09 11:05pm

My English teacher makes us use 12-point Times New Roman, so we have to resort to using filler. Replace short words and phrases with larger ones, and if you still have several pages left to type, just go off-topic, or type something like "Screw Berman and Braga" over and over again.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2003-03-09 11:08pm

Dalton wrote:
Pu-239 wrote:Have 4 essays to edit for english tomorrow. Only 1 partially done as of now. I CAN'T STOP READING THIS BOARD!!

Is there any way to temporarily block someone's access to this site, including not being able to read anything?
Ask Mike for a temp ban.

Not this time, since it's due tommorrow anyways. When the next project comes around.

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