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How to Write a College Paper in One Night

By The Unemployed Writer, published Jan 26, 2007
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Being in college is a chore. It takes a lot of work, carefully planned over the course of a week, or a month, or a quarter to make sure everything gets done with the full attention it deserves....are you laughing yet? No one puts in the time "required" to properly complete their college work. No, rather it's a rush at the end every week or two to complete a 10 page paper or learn 200 years of ancient Roman history overnight. You all do it, I did it. It's probably a better training skill than all the random stuff you "learn", because honestly in real life do you think you'll have the time to sit and schedule everything that pops into your life ahead of time. Yeah...thought not.

Anyways, for those of you just entering college from the snore inducing boredom and ease of High School, you're probably incredibly unprepared for the shear amount of work you'll have to pull out in the last second. I'm not saying it's easy just because you'll procrastinate. No, it's still hard. You really should take the time to do your work properly. You just won't, and so you need to learn how to procrastinate. It's a fine art, in which I feel I've become something of a Renoir.

How to Write a College Paper in One Night

This is you. But don't fret, we can make it go quickly and turn out okay.

Credit: Andrew Crowley

Copyright: Andrew Crowley

Takeaways
  • You should be a halfway decent writer from the start...you are in college
  • Professors love extra research. Even if you didn't do it. Make it seem like you did
  • Be confident. Don't waffle on points. Surety comes through and gives you the benefit of the doubt
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I totally agree. Unfortunately, there are times (ever so often) that the letter grade is what matters. And for those circumstances, shortcuts are necessary. Nine out of ten papers of mine were done the way they should be done, but that tenth one popped up every few weeks and I needed a quick out. I concede on the students being able to write, but a student entering a university should be able to write. The education system has a few wholes still in need of filling.

Posted on 01/28/2007 at 3:01:00 PM

 
What about the reason the student is at the university? Your prescription results in the chase being for the letter grade, not the learning. Once submitted, the content of papers done in this way is quickly dumped from memory. As for your comment about students being able to write, if that were true, why are roughly 40% of entering freshmen required to take remedial writing classes?

Posted on 01/28/2007 at 10:01:00 AM

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