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Monday Master Class: You’re Not Smarter Than a 5th Grader (When it Comes to Starting Your Paper Research)

January 26, 2023March 3, 2008

Humble Beginnings The last paper I wrote was a research paper for an art history seminar. When I began the process, I had a suitably … Read more

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Monday Master Class: How to Edit Your Paper in Three Passes or Less

January 26, 2023January 14, 2008

“Editing your paper is important, and this shouldn’t come as a suprise…At the same time, however, you don’t want to overedit. Many students fixate on … Read more

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Monday Master Class: The Most Important Paper Research Advice You’ve Never Heard

January 26, 2023December 17, 2007

The Dark Art of Paper Research You’ve likely figured out how to write a decent research paper. You know how to navigate the library catalog … Read more

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Monday Master Class: How to Use a Flat Outline to Write Outstanding Papers, Fast

January 26, 2023November 5, 2007

The Outline Orthodoxy For decades, students have been held captive by a rigid paper outline orthodoxy. It is first ingrained in elementary school and then … Read more

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Monday Master Class: How to Schedule Your Writing Like a Professional Writer

January 26, 2023October 15, 2007

[UPDATE: 2/18/08] Welcome new readers! If this is your first time here, Study Hacks is a blog that focuses on hacks to help you do … Read more

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Monday Master Class: How to Build a Paper Research Database

January 26, 2023October 1, 2007

How a Pulitzer Prize Winner Writes A few years back, I watched a CSPAN2 interview that changed the way I write major papers. The program … Read more

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Beyond Wikipedia: 15,731,298 References You Can’t Do Without

January 26, 2023September 17, 2007

Gideon over at Scholastici.us recently posted a great article titled Beyond Wikipedia: 20 Online Resources You Can’t Do Without. It listed 20 useful online information … Read more

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Monday Master Class: Downgrade the Importance of Writing in Paper Writing

January 26, 2023September 10, 2007

The Mystery of the Paper Grade When you sit down to take a test, you likely have a good sense of the grade you will … Read more

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