There is a tutoring center right next to the Sprinkles Cupcake shop I frequent when I need comfort food and it always amazes me that students are lined up 20 deep to get access to the tutors there. (The reason I notice this is that I’m always panicking that the line is for Sprinkles!) It makes me wish I owned the Tutoring Center and was raking in the big bucks from students needing help with any kind of collegiate topic. Getting help from tutors, professor aids, grad students and research specialists is just a part of the college experience and expense. However, it doesn’t have to break the bank. The best tutoring experience I know of is free and found right in front of just about everyone… Read more…

More money for you! That is the motto at Paper Masters this year! We are trying to think of creative ways to save you money while still getting you the best quality research possible. Our first promotion of the summer is going to focus on various universities across the country. Paper Masters is running a “per school” discount promotion this year. We will be adding schools that can receive discounts on our services each week, according to the top number of students that “Like” us on Facebook. Students from San Diego State University weighed in on the first round of discounts and they are currently enjoying the benefits of $1 off per page of any custom research paper.

If you want your school in the Paper Masters discount promotion, simply “Like” us on Facebook and we will put down a vote for you and your friends to receive discounts and promotional benefits. Don’t care about Facebook anymore? Call us and let us know that you and your friends love Paper Masters and want your school to be a part of our special rates.

Paper Masters understands that college is expensive, tough and challenging on many levels. We offer promotions to ease the cost of receiving a quality research sample. Without our samples, many students would not understand the depth that their research paper needs to go to in exploring a given topic. Paper Masters has helped thousands of students learn how to write quality research and provide a project they can be proud of. By using our custom research paper as a sample of how a student should write their own paper, mistakes are avoided and time spent learning how to format or cite is completely eliminated. It is all right there in front of you. Get your university on the list and get on the road to receiving quality research from Paper Masters.

First generation college students are the ones whose parents haven’t gone to college, nor anyone else in their family. It’s a daunting road and not just for the issues that would naturally pop into ones mind. Of course there is the lack of understanding from parents and family about the difficulty of college, but the problems go far deeper than that. According to the Daily Pennsylvanian, only 15% of first generation college student graduate, the lowest number of any social or economic group. The reasons vary but all of them make perfect sense… Read more…

How to Write a Current Events Research Paper

Writing a on current events is far more interesting than writing about something that one has never experienced. Choose your topic carefully and choose something that touches you personally or that you are interested in. Your paper must use a current event that relates to the material you’ve studied it in the course.  You should clearly define what this topic is and then link it to the topics covered in your text, discussions, or your organization.  A current event reflects an important development that may be evident or may still be emerging so, not all will agree that a new age has dawned.  This project encourages creativity, research, and summary (of the material in your course) and serves as an appropriate application of the theory and material of your course. Read more…

Free Textbooks are Inevitable

Imagine if all your textbooks were free and the thousands a year you formerly spent on them was now beer money. Boundless Learning is trying to make that happen and succeeding in over a 1000 universities across the country. By producing textbooks from independent publishers and making them freely available in e-text format, Boundless is able to offer them to students free of charge. Universities love them, students are getting better grades and saving money, and the 3 major textbook publishing companies are suing. Typical. But you can get free textbooks and here is how… Read more…

College campus’ are often microcosms of larger societal indicators. When weighing in on the coming November election, the overwhelming response from universities across the country is for another years of Obama. This may not be reflected in how well the President has done thus far, rather, it is a fear of what they have seen on the Republican Campaign trail thus far. With all hopes placed on Mitt Romney, college students feel abandoned by the Republican party. Romney gave his opinion of college student’s education debt with the following: Read more…

Who should the Neighborhood Watch be watching?

College students across the country are making sure Trayvon Martin is not going to go away for George Zimmerman. Protests and rallies were held this week to oppose the “Stand Your Ground” law, a law in some states that allows citizens to defend themselves with deadly force if they feel threatened. In theory, a fine idea; in practice and in the hands of an over-zealous racial profiler, apparently a license to kill. College students are weighing in on the many facets of the issue with angry opposition to the law and the state of our nation’s race relations. Read more…

Living with the parents use to be extremely taboo for the typical college student. Grad student? Forget it! However, the difficult economic times of the past several years has driven college students back into the parental abode and taboos have been thrown out the window on residing at the homestead. In fact, it has become so prevalent that living at home has become the majority choice for college students. The number has nearly doubled from 31.5 in 2008 to just under 60 percent in the 2009-2010 school year, according to the United States Department of Education. So the first step in coping with living with your parents while in college is to realize that you are not alone, in fact, you are the norm. With that said, there is one simple thing you can do to make living with your parents in college a dream and easy on everyone. Read more…

MLA or Modern Language Association is the premier format for undergraduate research papers. When you are assigned a research paper and you don’t know what format to use, choose MLA. Typically, the topic areas that use MLA are the humanities such as literature and the arts. This page will show you how to do MLA in-text citations, rules for using online sources and how to create a bibliography in proper MLA format. All you need to know is right here… Read more…

A recent article in the Chicago Tribune brought to light a growing American problem and put it’s finger on the cause – Many adults can’t research and write and overcrowded high-schools are to blame. According to the Tribune,

“Several Chicago-area high schools have dialed back the paper’s length requirements and instead emphasize the research process and weighing of sources, a critical skill in the digital era, teachers say. Others skip the extended assignment entirely in favor of shorter, intermittent papers, while some allow students to showcase their research with PowerPoint presentations and Web pages.”

The root of the problem rests in time and resources, not in relevancy. Teachers, particularly at the high school level, are overworked and have class sizes that are far to overwhelming to adequately grade and examine in-depth research papers. The Tribune article pointed out that while the 15 to 20 page senior high school research project use to be the norm, it is no longer bothered with in light of easier, less time-intense projects. The tragic result of this… Read more…