#term papers

[simplifiedmodding]

I made another thing! Particularly useful for off-grid and historical saves... Not quite a replacement for the notebook mod from years past, but should at least help get your sims through university without computers/electricity.

Read more on Patreon or download via SimFileShare.

[fixomnia-scribble]

I think - I think - I just cracked the last big issue in my stats data analysis for my presentation. If I'm right, my remaining workload just went way down and I will be able to get around to actual presentation prep very soon.

For those who speak Stats, I'm at the stage of cross-checking the validity of my two extracted Principal Components by way of multiple linear regression against other related variables. Why? Because we're not allowed to use the much faster Cronbach's Alpha tool. We're supposed to show we understand how our models work, not just report output numbers. That's easy enough, but my dataset stinks for this particular type of analysis (My beloved prof called it "hilariously awful"), and I have had to create some pretty wild dummy variables to test against.

If this sounds like gibberish, you're not wrong.

Have planned an Indian dinner and mindless movie night with friend, after presentation.

[breitzbachbea]

Different term paper, but I am doing this one for Judith. Then I am also going to do the other one for Judith. I am also doing them for myself and a grade, but the priorites are: 1. Make Judith proud, 2. Say something clever bc I am and I know clever things and 3. Get this thing fucking graded so that I can move on with my life.

[productivityacademia]

PROJECT GUTENBERG IS ON WATTPAD

And it has everything, 18,762 works from the Declaration of Independence to Treasure Island and Homer. Looks like i’ll be reading The Odyssey on wattpad, this particular version of the Odyssey i believe was translated by Theodore Alois Buckley.

And the link on the profile checks out too

[stickynotesandstress]

I honestly think my grades would be so much fucking better if term papers were more spaced out instead of having to write fifty plus pages for all of my classes in the span of a week and a half because every year when I get to this point (despite doing really well all year) I just say ‘fuck it’ and half ass it. 

[comparativelyinternal]

Literally just wrote my professor an email saying I hadn’t forgotten that I owe her a term paper for Spätlatein & that I’ve been doing research since July, but it’s taking me a while because I forgot how much my inner 8yo loves this topic and I keep getting distracted by essays that look interesting and having to read them (because of the aforementioned inner 8yo who was, I can freely admit now, pretty obsessed with the Roman Empire -- it was likely my first special interest). I also told her what I’d like to have as a topic for my paper (syntactic changes in Late Latin as well as possibly examining the influence of Greek on them).

So glad I have a professor with whom I can be real. This is not the same professor whom I sent an email saying “sorry, I hyperfocussed on my essay and missed class, but at least my essay is now finished and I can turn it in to you”, but it is the professor who heard me utter the words “burnout is a hell of a drug”.

[themarydragon]

Writing a Term Paper?

Staring at an Empty White Text Box?

Here’s how you beat it: formatting.

My major uses APA, and that’s how I’m formatting my stuff, but the Purdue OWL can help you format MLA and Chicago, too, if that’s what you’re supposed to use.

I’ve got a term paper due that’s worth 25% of my grade due, and staring at the empty page does me no good, so first I put in placeholders for the stuff I’m going to need to think of.

I can go back and edit that all later, and it helps to remind me to EDIT MY STUFF. Also, I never put anything really terrible in there, just in case.

Next, I cut-and-paste my paper rubric/guidelines into the abstract section, since I either (a) will write my abstract last, as a summary of the entire work, or (b) don’t need an abstract and will delete the whole damn thing anyways. I now have ONE WHOLE PAGE written, and whenever I want to know what I’m supposed to write about, I can just scroll up to Page 2.

Then, I make a new page and re-enter my title. Next, my topic headings, taken directly from my paper guidelines/rubric. Now I know what goes where.

The last heading is References, and that’s where I start dropping in the things I know I’m going to use. My text book is edited, so I have another fill-in-the-blanks form I use to make sure I quote the book correctly, and that goes right at the top (again, I’ll delete it when I edit my paper, this is for drafting purposes).

Now I’ve got several pages written, all the formatting done, and I just need to add references as I use them and then write the sections of my paper under each heading (which are the headings my teacher is looking for, based on the rubric). This whole thing is saved as my “Paper Title Rough Draft.” Once I’ve got all the sections filled in, I put in my title, fix my running head, delete the placeholder references, and Save-As a new paper as “Paper Title Final Draft” which makes me look like I’ve been doing way more work than I actually am.

I hope this helps you write your papers this term! Please feel free to reblog. <3