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• I did it for my Senior paper dude man brah!!! 26 pages of awesome. : soggybagel
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  On a serious note, what is the length requirement, what is the subject on, and are you a history major or... : soggybagel
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    8 pages, the split between Sunni and Shi'i Muslims and Western Civ, no I am not a history major. : dysfunctional
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      Well, what are you supposed to deliver with the paper? Just a brief history of the the split or what? I... : soggybagel
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        origins of the conflict between Shi'ites and Sunnis "For this assignment, you must write an 8-10 page ... : dysfunctional
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          That is a pretty pointed assignment and this shouldn't be hard at all. Just go to the library and ask a ... : soggybagel
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            Yeah, it's not very hard, I just feel that every sentence I'm writing is either a quote or a paraphrase..... : dysfunctional
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              The best is to read 2 or 3 sources of the same event until you have a good account in your head of what h... : menar003
              • Which strangely enough, is the entire point of the exercise - to learn about something by reading several... : nurglich
            • Got my BA in History. You'll be fine as long as you come to your own conclusion. Do you agree with the ma : dudehoyt
        • It's sad that professors actually have to explicitly say something about plagiarism in requirements for a... : delataur
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          He wants you to basically paraphrase the entire thing from sources, but he wants you to draw from many so... : Vantage
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            Pretty much this. Most of college "research" is just aggregating previous research other people have done... : Vincent Grayson
            • Pretty much all modern research is, high school and middle schools are just exercises in strengthening ou... : kaddar0
          • Unless you're quoting God. Then you don't have to cite. : soggybagel
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  That is something that bugs me, too. Its like Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo, for example. That is a commonly known fact. You don't need to get that out of a book. Is that still something you need to attribute to a source, or does it get a pass since its common knowledge?

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  That is something that bugs me, too. Its like Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo, for example. That is a c... : gimpx32
  • I believe that he was defeated at Waterloo is common knowledge, but if you were get any more specific you... : dysfunctional
  • There is typically a presumption of certain facts when writing a paper. It does depend though on what yo... : soggybagel
• There's nothing wrong with quoting a lot of sources. Look at a David McCullough book (Adams, Truman, 177... : riptyde
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  Heres an awesome trick I learned: Just write in the exact quote and switch the last two words in the sen... : johnwissinger
  • Don't do this. Automated plagiarism-detecting software will spot this trickery no problem. : Vantage
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    "Kill me." Swap the last two words. : RomSteady
    • Yeah, this totally work won't. I suggest that he actually use paraphrase instead of tricky being. I'm s... : Vantage
  • This is incredibly stupid advice. : mathyou
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    good advice if you want to pay a visit to the academic judicial board : arizona bay
    • which reminds me my lab partner in freshman year of college for biology I copied one of my lab reports an... : arizona bay
  • If you have to stoop this low to write a paper you really don't deserve a diploma. And I mean that in al... : LilCrypto
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    Stephen Ambrose, is that you? : rosewood
    • Didn't it turn out he plagiarized a shit ton? : soggybagel
  • I was hoping you winners would come up with some awesome example sentences in which this would be disastr... : johnwissinger
  • lol @ 'awesome trick i learned'. This advice is terrible. : darkT
• Just say: "[AUTHOR'S POINT] is problematic due to [INSERT OTHER AUTHOR'S QUOTE], and as a result [INSERT ... : Rice-Rocketeer
• You could just paraphrase/quote pretty much the whole thing. Cite the hell out of it. : mathyou
• Original quote: "Daddy said to bum, "Bum get a job." But Bum didn't want to get a job, because he felt sh... : scorpiusman
• true story, i dropped my first history class in college because i didnt know what the fuck. ill continue... : oHnOES
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  Read up on the history and cite sources and GIVE your own opinion. Inject some real thought into it abou... : Scotty22
  • "and then go into some bullshit on how that could be translated to today. " Really? For a western civ... : Vantage
• you give an opinion or analysis of the events, instead of banally recounting what happened. : biskits
• I'm assuming the importance in a history paper is the actual analysis, not a regurgitation of historical ... : Danny5225
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  Lie and say you had built a time machine in order to go back in time. You don't need to research shit tha... : DooBall
  • It worked for Bill and Ted, and look how Keanu ended up! : Moonbase Commander
• It required George Carlin and a phone booth but since he is dead and they don't have phone booths anymore... : rosewood
• "Stealing from one is plagiarism. Stealing from many is research." : DOOManiac