200 wordsOriginally Posted by Higgins113
Fuck, I have a 200 word essay due tomorrow, and I haven't even started.
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It really is.
You still have to put in the work, but it's definitely doable.
If you can, pick something you can write about fairly easily.
You want to basically have the outline worked out in your head already as to how you go about making your argument (maybe write it in the draft paper and fill in each section at first). If you get stuck on something skip ahead to the next part you can easily write about. Once you're done with everything you can write easily go back to the beginning and try to continue with the parts you left off. Then take a break and come back to it in about a hour and revise/expand until you get to something closer to a final draft. Have someone else read it, print out the draft and proofread. Make a final pass after another break.
Quotes are good to pad out content.
If you can, pick something you can write about fairly easily.
You want to basically have the outline worked out in your head already as to how you go about making your argument (maybe write it in the draft paper and fill in each section at first). If you get stuck on something skip ahead to the next part you can easily write about. Once you're done with everything you can write easily go back to the beginning and try to continue with the parts you left off. Then take a break and come back to it in about a hour and revise/expand until you get to something closer to a final draft. Have someone else read it, print out the draft and proofread. Make a final pass after another break.
Quotes are good to pad out content.
Nope, absolutely impossible.
I'm amazed at the number of people who waste time on things like outlines and drafts... Just write the damn thing.
For the annoying professors who required handing in drafts, I would just take the final version, rough it up a bit, and then turn that in as the "draft".
For the annoying professors who required handing in drafts, I would just take the final version, rough it up a bit, and then turn that in as the "draft".
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Yeah its certainly possible, as was mentioned in an earlier post online journals and articles are your friend in this situation. 3000 words should take your 6 or 7 hours. I would'nt advise doing it in the future though. I have fucking end of semester exams next week so I feel your pain.
Get off GAF and you might just manage it ;)
I have done this before, so yes.
Even if you "just write it", you still want to make a couple more passes through it to refine it and improve it.I'm amazed at the number of people who waste time on things like outlines and drafts... Just write the damn thing.
For the annoying professors who required handing in drafts, I would just take the final version, rough it up a bit, and then turn that in as the "draft".
And I'm not saying you need a waste a ton of time writing an outline, but if you have the rough structure of the paper set you can hop around in the paper to avoid writer's block and wasting time staring at a computer screen.
You're amazed that some people have a different writing style than you? Imagine that!I'm amazed at the number of people who waste time on things like outlines and drafts... Just write the damn thing.
For the annoying professors who required handing in drafts, I would just take the final version, rough it up a bit, and then turn that in as the "draft".
If you can't find a way to do every assignment the night before it is due, you are not ready to graduate college.
I miss those days.
I miss those days.
Done it myself multiple times in school, yay procrastination. (My personal best is speedreading As I Lay Dying in a day, and completing a 4 page essay/criticism on it that night, which was a week late because a snowstorm prevented me from obtaining the book. I still got a B on the paper.)
It will read like a rambling mess though unless you have one hell of an eye or really good sources to build your text around
It will read like a rambling mess though unless you have one hell of an eye or really good sources to build your text around
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7 pages in a day?
Is this a joke? I've done 30 before.
Is this a joke? I've done 30 before.
that's nothing
I did 21 for a class once. Oh and I goofed around on the day I was supposed to do it so I didn't start until 12:30am the day it was due. I then complained I got a B
I remember having a 45+ page case study assigned day one in my senior year business management class back in my uni days. The professor enjoyed speaking about it like it was some boogeyman. "Start working on it now, because if you wait even one week, chances are you won't finish on time and will end up failing my class," he warned us. Just about every week he would issue another warning and urge us to keep working on that dreadful assignment. Me being the procrastinating bastard that I am, ignored him and spent my time on more enjoyable pursuits. The weeks came and went and before I knew it, the semester was drawing to a close. Suddenly it was Friday and the 45 page (minimum) assignment was due on Monday. That night I finally pulled out all my materials and formulated a plan of attack. Saturday morning I began working and didn't stop until the sun was rising on Sunday. I was exhausted and mentally drained but I had somehow cranked out a 55 page cast study. I strode to class to hand the damned thing in on Monday and by Tuesday our grades were posted. Next to my name was a juicey 99.
So yes, totally possible to do 7 pages in one day.
So yes, totally possible to do 7 pages in one day.
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