Paper Writing, the MBro way.

How to write a research paper.

Step One: Put off til the last minute.

Step Two: Buy gatorade and energy drinks

Step Three: Make a Sandwich

Step Four: Grap MP3 player and head to the library

Step five: Browse internet for half an hour (currently on step five)

Step six: Turn on Raidohead becaues a paper cannot be written without Ok Computer going in the background

Step seven: Type your key terms into the library catolog and then browse the aisles most of the books are in and grab anything mildly interesting.

Step eight: Make sure you have more books than you'll ever need for a 15 page paper so you'll look like a dufus walking around with a pile of books nobody could ever read in a month

Step eight point five: Make an outline. Outlines are key.

Step nin: look at any and every girl that walks by and wonder if you have a chance

Step ten: Wish you were on adderal

Step eleven: Get within two pages of your desired length before you start playing with fonts and margins, change to a fix spaced font, add 1.5' top margins, if not at the right length do a find and replace of all periods with a size 2 points larger.

Step twelve: Rejoice, go home, sleep for 20 minutes before you have to be up for class.

Step thirteen: Proof read your paper between classes, make any changes.

/sigh

EDIT: added step 8.5

Edited by mbro - 05 May 2008 at 8:29pm

GI JOES SON wrote: same EXACT problem RIGHT now. do you remember how to do the period trick? making it bigger? i cant remember how to do it

cntrl+f go to the replace tab. Put "." in your find and in your replace. Click the more>> button and change the font to two bigger. Click replace all.

Also don't forget to not use contractions.

wow nice advice     lol

Also don't double space or play with fonts until the very end. It helps you avoid a mental wall you hit when you get near your goal.

Also, charts, graphs, and tables are your friends.

mbro, here: http://books.google.com/books?q=Kyoto+Protocol&btnG=Sear ch+Books

Mehs wrote: mbro, here: http://books.google.com/books?q=Kyoto+Protocol&btnG=Sear ch+Books

Thanks mehs, will use. My main objections to journal articles is I have to read them off the screen. Harder to focus and harder on my eyes. I focus better with paper and it's easier to tag things. I've got my stack of post its right next to me.

Thankfully I'm making this a persuasive paper that involves the Kyoto Protocol and the Nuclear Non-Poliferation treaty. I get to spend a lot of page space giving background on each of them and objections to them and refuting objections before I even get to make my reasoning arguments.

Basically I propose that the us can use the NPT to overcome objections to the Kyoto protocol by assisting NPT countries in using nuclear power instead of coal.

It opens a new market for american business and would increase the US in global standing and give us a stake in developing countries around the world that we would otherwise have poorer relations with.

Anyone want to point out more counter points to my opinion?

I'm working the whole nuclear iran issue pretty good as well as terrorism.

Amazingly, this method works for contract drafting as well.

The notXXscared method.

Step 1: Put off 'til last minute.

Step 2: Go on aim, facebook, ect, and listen to everyone complain about said paper

Step 3: Ask everyone in my class what they are doing paper on

Step 4: Pick a topic, write straight through for the next few hours until complete

Step 5: Half ass sources

Step 6: Half ass citations

Step 7: Some how fit sources/citations somewhere in my paper

Step 8: Remove any previously written information that is wrong due to sources.

Step 9: Squeeze margins if necesary

Step 10: Up comma/period size no matter what

Step 11: Print

Step 12: Eat pasta, go to bed

Step 13: Arrive to school, share complaints with everyone in class throughout day

Step 14: Hand in paper

Step 15: Receive B after being corrected, listen to the teacher lecture about how much everyone's papers sucked.

Step 16: Watch her fill 2 chalkboards and an overhead page with everything we collectively did wrong on our papers (60+ comments)

Step 17: Listen to teacher make comparisons to our papers, ie: " your papers were like masturbation, an unorganized explosion all over the place"

Rambino wrote: Other than security/terrorism concerns, I would think nuclear power for all would be a great idea.  That would go a long way towards breaking OPEC's hold on the world,

How did I not think of that one? eesh.

The only other concern would be that nuclear energy is not for rookies.  Any country that can't keep their planes from falling out of the sky may have a hard time keeping their nuclear plants from leaking.  I guess that could be partially addressed by conditioning the sharing of technology (and fuel supply) upon maintaining certain safety standards, and perhaps even requiring that the plants be operated by US companies.

I was thinking about using russias offer to control Irans fuel supply as a way to counter that since the NPT leaves it wide open for countries to issue requirements when helping developing countries. Total us control of plants probably would never be accepted but IAEA monitoring and US companies disposing of old fuel would probably be easy to get in.

I was going to cite some realists/classic IR liberal IR, IPE books to attempt to counter US companies creating terrorist backlash basically saying giving them stuff will make them love us (not that it ever totally could).

We'd deffinatly have to make it appear as though their government has a say in the agreements, which they really wouldn't.