<p>How many large, research papers do you usually do in college? How frequent are they assigned? how long are the majority of them (like more than 20 pages?) and does it depend on the major, since I am planning on an information systems management/computer science major. Thanks.</p>
<p>In my college every freshman must take 1 year long Humanities course which is worth 1.5 units. They assign us 4 papers each semester which are midium sized (1500 words/ 6 pages). Although they do not require extensive research, they do need complex interpratation skills. </p>
<p>I don't think they assign many research papers in introductory science/math courses, although they may ask you to write a abstract/critique of paper other has already written. these are relatively short(2 pages). In higher math and computer science courses(200/ 300 level), I think they assign you lengthy lab reports.</p>
<p>15 pager due wednesday... have I started? absolutly not</p>
<p>Otherwise, most of my papers average 4-5 pages but they are quite frequent.</p>
<p>I only have to write 3 papers this entire semester for my english class, 3 pages max. And the best part is, is that we get to keep revising it until the end of the semester.</p>
<p>i've just passed midterm week of my 1st semester here at college.
(knocks on wood and thanks god)
no papers yet.
(it could be because i'm not in english 101 because i passed that senior year of high school, but even my "writing intensive" class has given us nothing more than a paragraph of writing to do and its always in class)</p>
<p>I have to write three papers each week - each 4-5 pages long.</p>
<p>most papers are about 5 pages long</p>
<p>3 page paper technically due last wednesday, but I got an extension. I started it tonight, and hope I finish my tomorrow morning ;-) this is m first paper all year and its oonly a rough draft.... I'm finding it rediculously easy</p>
<p>Lucy,</p>
<p>3 papers a week? thats a lot. how do you manage it? I wrote my last 5-page paper over a week's time and still had to pull an all-nighter to finish it. And I start brainstorming for next paper 2 weeks early. 3 papers a WEEK! whew!!</p>
<p>I have to write 4 papers for this semester in English (5-6 pages), but the thing is that it comes with three drafts as well as the final copy. pretty much I constantly have some form of a paper due, and it completely sucks.</p>
<p>It also depends on your major. If you are a business major or math major, you will have not that many papers to do, unless its a writing intensive class. Even then many times its a group paper, or you have many chances for revisions/the paper is due in stages. If you are a liberal arts major you will probably have more papers to do. Usually unless its a math class I had to write at least one paper a class, but like I said before, half the time it was a group project.</p>
<p>average, your papers will be 5-10 pages, yet this varies with your course level(100, 200...) and your major and the type of class...classes w/ abstract concepts usually require more/highly detailed writing...your senior thesis will be about 60+ pages...research papers will probably be lengthy, if you're taking a research methods class, etc.</p>
<p>i can tell you now that every 300,400 lvl course i took had at least one paper in it. three of those classes were group papers and the papers were a good 100 pages long. the rest of them had about 2 papers per semester, roughly 5-10 pages long for each of them. as for my 100,200 lvl courses, other than calculus, they still had papers involved. i even had a 20 page single spaced paper to write for managerial accounting. most of those papers were 5-10 pages as well. my major did a lot of writing - and it was business :P</p>
<p>luckily, this quarter i haven't even written ONE paper. i'm taking orgo, physics, linear algebra, and a music class. that's okay though because I have plenty of other crap to do...</p>
<p>"If you are a business major or math major, you will have not that many papers to do, unless its a writing intensive class. Even then many times its a group paper, or you have many chances for revisions/the paper is due in stages. "</p>
<p>Although I would say that I do get fewer papers as a business major, joev makes it sound as is they are easier to write, especially when you work as part of the team. The exact opposite is true: business papers usually require a lot more research and time than an English/writing paper and team projects are MUCH more involved than a paper you get to write individually.</p>
<p>Three 5 page papers really isn't that bad...its the 10-100 page papers you have to worry about.</p>
<p>Don't really have papers... (CS major). Have programming assignments every week, and problem sets for the more theoretical classes. I've got a big project due the last week of term for my multimedia class, and another one for my databases class.</p>
<p>yeah, team projects are a lot more difficult. i had a hundred page paper my last semester of college where my team met two-three times per week outside of class. we got an A in the course, so it was worth it.. it's VERY hard to earn an A in that class, and doesn't happen often. i had another class that same semester where our paper was about 80 pages single spaced.. and for that paper we met in class twice a week as well as out of class one night a week. we also had other assignments in both of those classes - including smaller papers, tests, etc.</p>
<p>Your major & school definatly determine how long & how many papers there are. A lot of majors have a senior thesis, but mine doesn't so I don't know much about that. The only papers I have to write as a chemistry major are lab reports. Lab reports are like mini research papers.. intro, experiment, results, discussion, conclusion.. it's like 7pgs typed out double spaced.. once a week.</p>
<p>Aerospace major here, and we have to do like a 10 - 15 page of lab report EVERY week. And you will only be given a weekend to finish it. So, we have the lab session every Thursday, and have to turn in that lengthy and sizeable report Monday. There goes my weekend...</p>
<p>So I'm a civil engineering major but I'm taking an upper level english and an upper level history course. In my history course we have a 6-8pg paper due each week then one large paper and then in english we have 5 10-12 pg papers due over the whole semester. That in combo with all my mad hard calc HW and wacko chem profs probelms... it just makes me ill. What was I thinking?!?! Lab reports are another story... they're long but easy.</p>