But if school taught us how to do anything, it showed us how to turn the un-presentable into the presentable—at least by the end of class on the due date. In fact, we can assure you there is no poster that can’t be improved with an extra photocopied textbook illustration, no diorama that can’t rise another letter grade with an accompanying oral argument about how you’ve truly revealed Ibsen’s underlying dramatic—and certainly no short essay that resists inflation into a term paper four times the normal size of its content.For students attempting to google me: If you do exactly as the TMN guys tell you for your papers in Eng10, you will get a fat, round grade in your classcards. No dice.
Thursday, June 9
How to write a term paper
Once again, the guys at TMN bring you incredibly useful advice. This time they give us the lowdown on how to write a term paper--complete with tips on pagination, margins, font size, and of course, with pictures: