Writing Better Essays – The Easy Way
Term Paper Help from Dr. Mike Cooper
What’s happening with your college term papers and essays?
Unfortunately, that’s a question that a lot of student’s cannot
or do not want to answer. I see students on almost a daily basis
who have the term paper blues. Their biggest problem? They just
can’t seem to get started. They procrastinate and rationalize.
They put off doing their assignments until the eleventh hour.
These students often succeed in convincing themselves that being
able to write good term papers and essays is beyond them or just
not necessary. This purpose of this website is to get you
started on the road to writing good college term papers and
essays. My simple steps in producing better essay papers should
make writing papers at least easier if not easy. If you really
want to be educated then you will have to learn to express
yourself on paper. There is no way around this so adjust your
attitude and decide you will learn to write a quality term paper
or essay that says something.
Writing good term papers will certainly help you remain in
college. Failing English is a major cause for students to wash
out of college. You do not have to do this. Use the resources of
this term paper site and you can succeed. Take a few minutes and
at least see if you can comprehend what I am telling you on how
to write great college papers.
Book reports are basically essays on a book you have read. If
you have a choice pick a book you might enjoy. If you need to
view some quality book reports do a search from one of the
search engines on this site. The free college term papers and
essays also have books reports for your viewing. What I want to
tell you I learned by the school of hard knocks. The information
I will provide you works well if you put forth a reasonable
effort. The information you will receive by reading the
Bullshipper’s advice on writing college essays and term papers
is concise, simple and straight forward. You will be able to
remember what I have to say. Really want to get off to a good
start with your essay or term paper? You must or you would not
be reading this. Determine the following before you attempt to
write. (next column)
Getting Started
What is you essay writing assignment? Do you understand just
what your professor or teacher is asking for? As a college
professor I have seen many a essay and term paper writing
assignments botched up because students failed to do as
instructed. If you are having trouble determining just what the
essay assignment is then ask your instructor until you are clear
as to what is expected. Guessing can get you on a bind. Get to
know your essay and term paper subject and just what you want to
do with it. Determine just who you are writing for. Define a
motive for this writing. Saying your teacher or professor is
making you write an essay paper is not a motive. You want your
essay to be interesting to a wide audience.
Do not produce an essay without a purpose. The first sentence
you are going to write starts like this, The purpose of this
paper is to…… You fill in the blanks.
References for a Term Paper or Essay Finding good references for
you work is now easier than every with the use of the internet.
During my days as a high school student we spent a lot of time
searching out essay references the hard way. We had to climb
around library bookshelves. We had to tinker with microfiche. We
had to take copious notes on 3 X 5 cards. Oh, yes, we used
typewriters and/or ink on paper. No one was even thinking of
word processing. Here are a few simple steps to learn the
subject you are going to write about.
Do your class assignments, read what your teacher tells you to.
Do not bluff your professors or teachers. I tried this and it
rarely worked. Learn to use the academic search engines. I
cannot believe just how many of my students do not know how to
do this. When I say academic search engines I am not talking
about the common internet search engines such as Google and
Yahoo. If you do not know what I am talking about contact your
school library and ask them how you can connect to the academic
search engines such as the Ebsco Host or the Wilson Web. You
will never regret learning how to use them. They are easy to use
and contain millions of quality articles on just as many
subjects.
Read other term papers. You do not care if the papers are good,
bad, or in between, just read other essays that concern the same
subject you are going to write about. If you follow my advice on
this website you will learn to tell the quality essays and term
papers from mediocre essays and term papers. Even poor essays
can have good ideas that may help you in your writing. This site
has links to thousands of term papers and essays at a very low
cost. You even get excepts from each paper. These links point to
a real term paper buffet; all you care to read.
A word to the wise. I had three students in one class turn in
the same exact essay, errors and all. They copied this essay off
a free term paper site. They did not intend to write a decent
essay. They decided to take the easy way out. They did not
collaborate. Needless to say they got a lot of trouble. Dumb. I
hope you take the extra time to produce a quality essay or term
paper. The only way to get good at writing is to write. I
guarantee this. Remember, “if you take from one author it is
plagiarism; take from many authors and its research.” (Mizner,
W.)