<p>I love this year's research paper things. For history we were gonna get a 15 page paper on the Cold War or Civil Rights, but she changed it to just 2-2-3 page DBQs, no big papers. My lit teacher was gonna give us a 20 page paper on a figure from brit lit with presentations and everything. She changed it to one 3-5 page (over 5, automatic 0) analysis of 1984. So great! She claims we will never have like 10-20 page papers. We will have 2-5 maximum page papers in college until our senior year in college when we get up there. Her college senior paper was 109 pages, but she said every other paper was 5 or under.</p>
<p>that was my 12-pager last year..american dream. but i got a 99, i dont think he actually read it. last year i had a 12 pager on that, a 10 pager on Emerson, and a 16-pager on Karen Silkwood (historical mysteries), that's why Im so glad with this years research stuff.</p>
<p>My only research paper this year (or next) is my paper for Research, which I'll be starting soon. I'm not sure how long it's supposed to be yet (I still have to do my revisions for my personal experience paper and two criques before I start the actual research paper, but it's at least ten. My teacher may give me an upper limit - she's been doing that ever since recieving my over 7K word "short story" when I took creative writing.</p>
<p>It's entirely up to me what to research and how to present it. I've been considering alternate histories - what if the South won the Civil War? What if the Japanese never bombed Pearl Harbor? Or, my current favorite, what if Peter the Great and Alexander the Great switched places? But those might be a little too much research to finish well within a quarter.</p>
<p>I just finished a 10 page paper on the current conflict in Darfur last weekend. It wasn't too bad because the topic was interesting, but I am VERY glad it's over. English and me do not get along at all.</p>
<p>We seldom write papers, and those are usually in English and are seven pages in length over topics related to both history and English (the classes are team taught).</p>
<p>I'm a history major - and through 300 level courses, the longest paper ive written is 11 pages. A lot of papers are 3-5 pages, and usually long papers are 7-9.</p>
<p>I will have to write a thesis to get my degree, and from what I know - you take a class entirely devoted to writing your thesis, and they generally run 30-40 pages.</p>
<p>In short, you don't have to write as much in college as high school teachers make you think.</p>
<p>Most of my papers are two pages, as that's what the teachers seem to want. Starting a persuasive essay next week on Internet censorship that is 4-5 pages though.</p>
<p>I have to write only one research paper for english this year, but he's allowing us to choose any topic we want; I dont know if thats necessarily better, since he might choose to grade tougher since we picked w/e we wanted. Anyhow, I still don't know what I'm gonna pick</p>
<p>Heh. I had to do a reserach paper last year. It had to be 15 pages, but I think that included title page etc. It was pansy, but that was because we had to do it in a style of an author we had read earlier that year. I chose one that allowed me to have like 10 pages of quotes :)</p>
<p>Last year in APUSH I, I had to write about any topic in American History up to 1920. I wrote some bs on Andrew Johnson.</p>
<p>This year, in APUSH II, I wrote about JFK's foreign policy, which I loved. It was supposed to be about the Cold War because the IB test is focused on it or something, but she was pretty lenient with a topic if you were in AP.</p>
<p>I have to write a research paper in English, which sucks because they're only making us do it so they have an excuse for giving the IB kids class time to do their Extended Essay. Yeah, I hate my school so very, very much.</p>