Romancing with a Term Paper?
Think I’m kidding? Absolutely not! In fact, one of our best writers told me over a beer last night that he got over 15 dates in college using the “Holy shit! I’ve a term paper due tomorrow and I don’t know how to do it” line on hot girls at the U of Wisconsin. Just like the cheesy guy at the laundry mat looking helplessly at the skid-marks on his underwear, Riley Musbach, professional term paper writer extraordinaire, shamelessly scammed brainy females into helping him with his already completed term papers! I thought I’d heard it all but Riley gave me new insight into creative college dating secrets and here is how he did it! Read more…
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Wikis help organize College Research Papers
The Internet is one of the greatest educational tools to come along since one room school houses put up the first blackboards. On the internet, there are endless ways to help college students in their studies. One of the best organizational tools to come along for college research papers is a Wiki. Many students find that using a Wiki to organize information gathered on a research paper is a great way to keep notes all in one place and access them easier. Read more…
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View Above Notre Dame
- Football coach fired because he didn’t get the top recruits for two years in a row (Tyrone Willingham, coincidently African American) and he failed to get his team to the “big money” bowl game two years in a row.
- Priest plagiarizes portion of book on the Pope! (Father Richard McBrien, accused twice of plagiarism…cleared by University once, caught with his pants down the second time!)
- Would anyone like to survey the football team and see how many of them are Catholic? (Sign me up and let me put a Vegas bet on it that it’s a little heavy on the Baptist side!)
You can see where I’m going with this. Notre Dame is abhorrent for making a fuss over the President’s policies on abortion and protesting his appearance when they are no more representative of a Religious Institution than the Knights of Columbus are at a Friday Night Fish Fry. According to Notre Dame History Professor Wilson Miscamble, C.S.C, the percent of Notre Dame staff that checks “yes” on survey as to whether they are Catholic or not is only 53%. What is going on inside the walls of Notre Dame, according to Miscamble, is nothing akin to the Catholic traditions that cosmetically denote the campus.
I don’t mean to rag on an institution that is already having a heck of a time deciding what to do with itself in this world. (Do they let priests marry? Do they pay off former altar boys or go through messy litigation? Questions, Questions, Questions!) It’s a tough time to be Catholic. So how about alienating the President of the United States and getting holier than the Pope, who in 2007 honored Nicholas Sarkozy, the pro-choice President of France, by inviting him to the Vatican and bestowing the title of Honorary Chanoine.
Hmm…What are we saying when our educational institutions are hypocritical and antiquated? Perhaps Notre Dame needs to rethink its priorities and decide what type of school its going to be…one of the greatest football institutions in America or a Catholic banner waving monstrosity of outdated ideals that not even the Pope adheres to.
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Outside of plagiarism just being dead wrong, there are psychological issues involved with taking someone elses work. I’m always preaching anti-plagiarism and being careful about citing information. The resent accusations of plagiarism against Coldplay illustrate how delicate an issue plagiarism is for artists. Basically, Yusuf Islam, formerly Cat Stevens, is accusing Coldplay of stealing a guitar riff of his in the song Viva La Vida. Yusuf is a little sensative of this issue, as he has, in the past, accused several artists of plagiarism and sued one, The Flaming Lips. So Coldplay has a fight on their hands. Both sides are hurt and both sides think they are right. The only protection either side has is careful documentation of their own work, even as musicians.
Plagiarism is a serious offense and knowing how to avoid it is very important for college students. It follows you throughout your life, even if your rock stars. Lesson learned…document, document, document. Even if we are talking only 8 notes in a scale and only 7 different ones.
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So a friend has a paper on social phobia and doesn’t know what to write. Here’s my suggestion:
First start your introduction paragraph by stating why social phobia is a problem. Are there many people how have it? Is it awful to have? Why is it important?
Then begin the body of your essay:
Paragraph 1
Define social phobia/anxiety
Paragraph 2
What are symptoms of social phobia
Paragraph 3
Who gets social phobia
Paragraph 4
What is the hope for people who have the disease?
Conclusion
OK, so that’s the outline for the paper. In text citations look like this:
Most of these therapies center around getting the individual to better understand his or her self and gain better coping skills. Different therapy methods include behavior therapy, cognitive-behavior therapy, and multimodal therapy (Carson, Butcher, and Mineka, 190).
You give the author’s name and then the page number after you state a fact.
The corresponding bibliography to this citation looks like this:
Carson, Robert C., James N. Butcher and Susan Mineka. Abnormal Psychology and Modern Life. New York: Harper Collins College Publishers, 1996.
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Ok, so I admit this is really lame but I would love to have about 20 posts for you about grammar and common writing mistakes and reminders on punctuation, but…Can’t do it. The stuff bores me. However, a blog I’ve been following lately does an excellent job at what I can only dream of. If you want a brush up on Grammar and the technical aspect of writing. I highly recommend WriteRight.
WriteRight outlines the basics of your English Comp class back in high school and even though I write every day of my life, I appreciate a brush up every now and then.
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Don't miss the party just because of classes!
If you’re being diligent and sacrificing your summer for summer session classes you’re undoubtedly a bit disappointed. Friends are free, the family is taking a vacation and its beautiful outside. Sure you’re proud of yourself for getting ahead of the game but, you’re not a saint, and part of you is feeling truly sorry for yourself. Been there done that but, I learned several tips that can really salvage your summer and get you where you want to be academically. You can have summer fun, plenty of time and not waste a single day of the best years of your life. Read more…
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Get help on Facebook and Twitter
Another finals week is here and many students are looking for help from online services that write custom research papers for a fee. If you are not interested in pay services, there are some free research paper assistance services that are extremely helpful to stressed students. Many of the most helpful services come through social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter. We will cover just a few here.
Facebook provides one of the largest communities in the world of college students. Paper Masters has 24 hour staff monitoring our Facebook Profile to provide assistance to any of our friends, clients and students. Post a comment or question, ask for help with your finals week research paper or just say “hey, what is Paper Masters about”.
Twitter is used throughout education for instant advice and help for students from academia. Paper Masters is available via Twitter for advice and assistance for college students, 24 hours a day. No fee, just free, professional advice or help from professional academic writers who know research papers inside and out. MLA format, Citation questions, advice on choosing a topic and any other question you have. Or better yet, just say “hello”!
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What is rhetoric?
The word “rhetoric” comes from ancient Greece and it literally means “the art of persuasion.” It has a rich history stretching back to Aristotle and up through the European Renaissance and into today. You may wonder how if rhetoric continues to influence the world today, but your answer is in the world around you. Rhetorical arguments are on television, on the radio, and in the newspaper. When the president delivers the state of the union address he is delivering a statement that is built solidly on a rhetorical premise that has carefully considered genre, audience, and position.
What does rhetoric mean to me?
No matter what career you are planning to pursue, your ability to communicate and persuade audiences will be important to you. When you write a cover letter to an employer, or an opening argument in a law case, or an article for a medical journal, you will have to consider rhetoric. You will have to think about how to best persuade your given audience. And there are many factors involved in how to do this. A rhetorical analysis endeavors to make you more knowledgeable about this very subject and to better prepare you to create effective arguments.
How do writers think about rhetoric? Read more…
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TurnItIn.com is as common to college students blue books, pizza and cheap beer. Write your term paper, submit it to TurnItIn.com and submit the paper and report to your professor. However, not all students want this process to be a part of the academic world. A group of high schools students have taken iParadigms, the owners of TurnItIn.com, to court for copyright infringement. The decision of the suite against TurnItIn.com was released this week, with the court voting that since no transformation of the work takes place, there is no violation of copyright.
This is an excellent victory for both students and colleges and universities. Services like TurnItIn.com assist in the fight against plagiarism and encouraging students to maintain academic integrity of their work. A recent study and subsequent authoring of a book about the study reveals that students care about plagiarism far more than colleges and university administrations give them credit for. Susan D. Blum reveals the results of a three year investigation into college culture and plagiarism in “My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture“. We will be reveiwing her book on this blog next week and I think most of you will be very surprised at what she finds. According to Blum’s findings, one can speculate that most students will applaud the court’s decision in favor of TurnItIn.com. If you have an opinion on the TurnItIn.com decision, we would love to hear it!
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