<p>Over the past week of my senior year (already into my #1 college too so i have virtually no motivation) I have had to write a 6 page lab report for psych, an 8 page paper about economic indicators, and am currently writing a 12 page "dual lit" paper about two books that I have not read..</p>
<p>anyone else have any last minute papers they have to do?</p>
<p>a 12 page paper in high school?! that’s kind of crazy. what class is that for exactly?
i have some late papers to write, but they’re only 1-2 pages each. i hate writing long papers. for me, it’s like repeating everything i wrote.</p>
<p>it’s for a class that is a program at a local university. If you get a C or higher, you get college credits without having to take an AP exam, but the work is so crazy and the teacher has his masters (and everything else) from Columbia University- probably the hardest class i’ll ever take in my life. Someone who goes to Cornell right now said his first semester wasn’t nearly as hard as this guy’s class lol</p>
<p>Got a B+ first marking period, but now i am at an 81 so this paper is kinda do or die for me lol</p>
<p>wow, that sounds really tough! at least that class will prepare you for the future! good luck with your paper (:</p>
<p>12 pages isn’t that much for high school. My AP English term paper was 30 pages. :D</p>
<p>^High school =/= CC.</p>
<p>thx sky lol</p>
<p>yeah pro- there was a 25 page paper for AP English last year (so i didn’t take it) :)</p>
<p>just the fact we have 2 weeks for this during mid term stuff and other huge essays makes it a large burden. It’s also every marking period</p>
<p>I know what you mean. I have a 4-5 page paper due Tuesday. And …here’s the real kicker…a 50 to 70 page paper due tomorrow. (unfortunately that paper still has to be in size twelve font, not like I can enlarge the words…darn!)</p>
<p>^Make the margins 1.25", put the page number in with the text, and make the bottom margin 2". Works every time :D</p>
<p>I had to do an 8 page paper in middle school >.></p>
<p>Leaf—thanks for the suggestion, that does sound enticing. …what other unnoticeable formatting things could I switch up?
:D. hah</p>
<p>I always do mine on the last day. I started at 11:45 P.M. once, but then I fell asleep and woke up at 6:00. I skipped first period to finish writing it.</p>
<p>Make sure every paragraph is just long enough so that 1 word is on the last line. This way you maximize your length and make your paper easier to read.
For instance:
The tax forms will be due
on April 15 or something.</p>
<p>can be changed into
The tax forms will be due
on about April 15 or
something.</p>
<p>studious- do the period trick! do you really have a 50-70 page paper though? that’s absurd.</p>
<p>Whats the period trick?</p>
<p>Yeah…50-70 pages…We had nine weeks to write the essays. And the nine weeks prior to that we had to write another 50-70 pages. So, in the first half of the year, in that class, the minimum amount of writing to be done was 100pages. I have to put all my writing together and see if I have enough there. I’m afraid to do that, thinking what would I do if I only had 28 pages? Argh.</p>
<p>The period trick is making all the periods size 14 while the text remains size 12. You can go a bit bigger, maybe 14.5 or 15 point font for the periods, but it gets notable. I think you just do ctrl+F or command+F if you’re on a mac and use the “find and replace” function. There’s a video about it somewhere on FB. Like in the “writing my papers single spaced makes my double spaced result climactic” or something group.</p>
<p>^Seconded. I’ve been waiting for high school to end since the summer before sophomore year.</p>
<p>I have to admit…my favorite year of high school: freshman year.</p>