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Old 2009-03-13, 11:52 AM   #54
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Originally Posted by 100_Percent_Juice View Post
I think Scott dashes people to pieces in posts like this because he is afraid of being loved. An inherent fear of commitment buried deep inside.
I honestly wasn't trying to come down on the paper at all!

It's a rough draft, so of course it's got stuff that needs updating. I just posted up the simple stuff I noticed that the spell checker didn't catch, plus my take on making the paper better as far as grading is concerned. Getting a good grade on a term paper is easy: say what you're going to talk about, talk about it, then remind the reader that you just talked about what you said you were going to talk about. If you do that, and meet the formatting/spelling/grammar/sources/length requirements, it's virtually impossible for the teacher to give you less than an A on the paper.

It seems to me that Moose has already done plenty of research, I assume the formatting will be taken care of in the final draft since that's as simple as just setting the margins and crap, so IMO all the paper needs is some basic proof-reading for typos and more direct intro and summary paragraphs with the supporting parts of the paper reorganized to match the thesis. All the hard work (the research) is done!

I was under the impression that getting this sort of feedback was exactly why Moose posted the draft up!
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