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[G-Flex]

Idea: Instead of trying to figure out how to waste space, try to figure out how to write a good, substantial paper.

[SalmonGod]

Idea: Instead of trying to figure out how to waste space, try to figure out how to write a good, substantial paper.

Not hard to do both.  Just be thorough. Provide information and reasoning that may not be absolutely necessary, but still aids in providing a complete picture of your thoughts.  Then summarize twice in slightly different wordings -- once for introduction and again for conclusion.  Writing papers is easy.

[Lord Shonus]

It is very difficult, without using bureaucratese, to write a solid, substantial 4-page paper analyzing a  half-page to one page writing. Unless he's in  an advanced literary analysis class, it's an unreasonable assignment.

[Cthulhu]

I was planning on doing a good, substantial paper, I just don't have any qualms about being wordier than I need to be.

[fqllve]

I'd definitely go with Hills Like White Elephants, which you seem like you're going to anyway. Hemingway was so oblique in that story that you've got a lot of blanks you can fill in. Plus abortion is tangent-fodder if there ever was.

[G-Flex]

Then summarize twice in slightly different wordings -- once for introduction and again for conclusion.  Writing papers is easy.

Honestly, that's a pretty poor and redundant way to begin/end a paper. It comes off as amateurish and weird. The introduction should introduce and the conclusion should conclude. If your introduction and conclusion are serving the same purpose with slightly different wording, something's wrong.

[ToonyMan]

That's when you should call Tool Time Tim to fix your problem with wacky slapstick injuries.

[SalmonGod]

Then summarize twice in slightly different wordings -- once for introduction and again for conclusion.  Writing papers is easy.

Honestly, that's a pretty poor and redundant way to begin/end a paper. It comes off as amateurish and weird. The introduction should introduce and the conclusion should conclude. If your introduction and conclusion are serving the same purpose with slightly different wording, something's wrong.

Typically get A's on all my papers.  Introduction and conclusion always do basically the same thing.  Introducing your ideas always involves some summary of them.  Concluding your ideas also involves summarizing them.  They're both summaries worded for different purposes.  Body of a paper states and explains your ideas in entirety with supporting information.

Honestly, I always thought it was wierd to repeat the same thing 3 times, but that's how I was taught to write papers and I've always received compliments on them from teachers.  Perhaps it has something to do with short attention spans and/or memories, and people who read these things having to read A LOT of them.  So beginning and ending with a summary is meant to keep the reader's perspective on track.

I never understood why people have so much trouble filling space in a paper, when you're usually expected to write this way.

[ChairmanPoo]

I say put in use your Expert Excrement Expeditor perk.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

+10 points

[Ricky]

what made me sad is what my mom told me.


mom: so... theres this apple crisp i made.

me: yum!

mom: there's one thing though... i put cayenne pepper on it instead of cinnamon...

me: -facepalm-

[ChairmanPoo]

what made me sad is what my mom told me.


mom: so... theres this apple crisp i made.

me: yum!

mom: there's one thing though... i put cayenne pepper on it instead of cinnamon...

me: -facepalm-

Thats sugarcane that tasted good.
Thats cinnamon cayenne pepper, thats Hollywood.
C'mon, c'mon no one can see you try

[Gunner-Chan]

I guess I'm feeling nostalgic right now. In a kind of bad way.

* Janet sighs.

Last summer, and moreso the one before were some of the best I felt in a while. And that's been gone a long time now hasn't it?

[Leafsnail]

How come?

[The Merchant Of Menace]

Damn. Feeling really bleh tonight :<