Homework Pages
A multiple page essay or paper can be a grueling and challenging project. The more pages you need to complete, the more facts you need. Logically you will need to do more research for longer papers. Some projects will take several months, and require several weeks of preparation before starting to write. What you need is a good plan. If you structure out your time and plan your work out carefully, it will be done before you know it. Let’s look at the bright side for a moment. Firstly, whether your paper is 3 pages long or 100, it is only on a single idea. You will build up momentum as you go until eventually it will carry you to the end of your project.
The foundation you will build your project on is strong solid research. If you don’t have good sources to rest your facts and arguments on, then how can the reader believe what you say? You can’t expect them to believe what you say just based on your personal integrity. Some examples of bad sources are non verified web sites, Wikipedia, and articles in less reputable newspapers such as tabloids. The reason these aren’t reliable sources is that you don’t know where the information comes from. It’s essentially gossip packaged to try and look respectable.
The most reliable sources are books, particularly reference books. Since purchasing all the books you would need for any given paper could run up quite a tab, I recommend using the library. The library carries complete encyclopedia sets and many other reference books that would be difficult for a student to obtain. In addition libraries often have subscriptions to research and article databases. This is most common in school and college libraries. Online article archives usually include many good articles that can provide you with good material for your paper. Always remember to cite your sources, as that is often factored into your grade.
The next important part is setting up your paper. Start by writing a good outline of all the points you want to cover in your paper. A good guideline of how many points to use is 2-3 points per page. This of course will depend on how much you can say on an individual point. You can always stretch a point if you need to. The final stage will be filling out the points. If you did a good job of the previous steps, then this part should be pretty easy.