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Originally posted by peter12@Nov 13 2004, 03:36 PM
Anyone else been sitting at their computer for about 3 hours trying to get started on the dread term papers? I got a poli one due monday and I have maybe 2 pages of notes.
HOW does one get motivated?
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Which Poli Sci course are you in?
I currently have 10 and 15 page essays (double spaced) due on tuesday and am currently 2 and a quarter pages into the first one. I also take forever to start my essays and have found that since about grade 12 finals, the peak of my studying & non-procrastination, I have been on a steady decline of studying and not procrastinating. Not good, that's for sure.
Anyways, I find that once I get started on a paper it flows alot easier and I start moving through it faster. Though I have absolutely 0 plans or previous notes taken for these 2 particular essays, I sorta think of something that has to do with the topic at hand and react accordingly. If I think a quote is good, ill go find one and use it, etc, etc. Also, I am pretty lazy and only use electronic full text sources as opposed to actually venturing into the library at school. I like to think of it as narrowing down my sources (heh), so I basically never run into the problem you have of ending up with so much information that you are overwhelemd.
I tend to do alright on papers, moreso on Poli Sci ones because they focus more on content than structure (cursed English papers). So I hope this sort of helps you out a bit...