Secrets to Writing Great Papers

Introduction

Introduction If you're like most students, you've had at least eight courses by now in how to write papers-and you still freeze up at some point between beginning and end in almost every paper you're assigned. You know that it's dumb to have credits subtracted for being hasty or late, yet you still deliberately postpone the inevitable until you're smack up against a due date. It's not your fault that you freeze up; it's the system's. Almost every paper students are assigned to write is based on ideas and graded mostly on how well the ideas are expressed. Yet, although students are all taught how to recognize facts, they're rarely shown how to find ideas. They learn how to write paragraphs and how to structure sentences , but not where to put in the ideas. Fright is justified if you haven't been taught how to get the ideas down. 1 2      This book fills the education gap. It doesn't tell how to write paragraphs or how to structure sentences. Instead, it focuses on the main point in writing papers-filling pages with ideas. It pinpoints the basic problems, and gives stepby -step solutions. ...