Using Your Term Paper To Seduce and Romance

Posted by Karen on June 4, 2009 under College Survival Tips | Be the First to Comment

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 of this article »

Notre Dame a Religious Institution? Since When!

Posted by Karen on May 18, 2009 under In the News | Be the First to Comment

* Football coach fired because he didn’t get the top recruits for two years in a row (Tyrone Willingham, coincidentally 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. Read more of this article »

Is Plagiarism Important? Just ask Coldplay

Posted by Karen on May 13, 2009 under In the News | Be the First to Comment

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.

Writing on Social Phobia: An example

Posted by Karen on May 11, 2009 under Essay Writing Tips | Be the First to Comment

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.

A Little Help from My Friends

Posted by Karen on under Research Paper Tips | Read the First Comment

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.

Help with Finals Week Research Papers on Facebook and Twitter

Posted by Karen on April 30, 2009 under General | Be the First to Comment

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”!

TurnItIn.com Wins a Major Victory Against College Students

Posted by Karen on April 23, 2009 under In the News | Be the First to Comment

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!

Choosing a Term Paper Topic That “Wows” Professors

Posted by Karen on April 22, 2009 under Research Paper Tips | 2 Comments to Read

We discussed in last week’s post some easy ways to come up with a topic for a term paper. This week, we can take that topic and turn it into something that will blow your professor away with its insight and originality. Let me give you an example – You find Shakespeare dull and boring and you have a term paper on Romeo and Juliet. How can you relate Romeo and Juliet to what you love and write about something that will wow the professor? How about writing an English term paper that compares the All-American Rejects song “Dirty Little Secret” to Romeo and Juliet? That is what I mean by making the paper relevant and contemporary, no matter what the topic is. Read more of this article »

5th Year of College Free! Well…Kind of…

Posted by Karen on April 13, 2009 under In the News | Be the First to Comment

According to the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, a recent trend in private universities is to offer a guarantee that if a student doesn’t graduate in 4 years, the 5th year is free! Pennsylvania’s Juniata College is one of several private schools to launch this program in hopes of attracting financially strapped parents. Since approximately only 1 in 3 college students actually graduate in 4 years, colleges like Juniata are hoping that parents will realize that two thirds of them will need to pay for an extra year they may not have budgeted for and be lured in by the 20% savings. Sound good parents? Well…wait just a minute…You have to have a bit of help from your college student… Read more of this article »

Picking the Perfect Research Paper Topic

Posted by Karen on April 12, 2009 under Research Paper Tips | Be the First to Comment

Have you ever stared at a blank computer screen, heard the clock ticking in the background, the research paper due the next morning and you don’t even have a topic picked out yet? Picking out a term paper topic is one of the hardest parts of writing a research paper. If you pick a topic too narrow, you won’t be able to find enough information to write on. If your research paper topic is too broad, the whole paper will sound like fluff and there will be no focus to the writing. You must pick a topic that is narrow enough to be relevant to what you discuss each day in class, yet broad enough to be able to find interesting and informative resources. So how do you pick the perfect topic for a research paper? It is really quite simple to pick a research topic and you can do it five minutes or less! Read more of this article »