Papers & Essays: Crash Course Study Skills #9
Writing research papers is an essential skill in your career as a student, and this week we're going to help you do that like a pro. From figuring out where to begin, to finding the best...
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Let’s be real here – you’ve got a 2,000-word essay due in less than 24 hours and you’re watching a YouTube video. Look at your life, look at your choices. But wait to do that until this video’s over, because today I’m going to help you become a literary genius. Or, at least, write a paper that doesn’t give your teacher more ammunition for wastebasket free throws. [Theme Music] Simon Peyton Jones, a researcher for Microsoft, once gave a talk at Cambridge University about how to write a great research paper. In this talk, he advised the audience to start out the paper writing process with a pre-writing phase. Only once that’s done should they go to research. Most people do this in the opposite way. They get their idea, they go do a bunch of resear...
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Let’s be real here – you’ve got a 2,000-word essay due in less than 24 hours and you’re watching a YouTube video. Look at your life, look at your choices. But wait to do that until this video’s over, because today I’m going to help you become a literary genius. Or, at least, write a paper that doesn’t give your teacher more ammunition for wastebasket free throws. [Theme Music] Simon Peyton Jones, a researcher for Microsoft, once gave a talk at Cambridge University about how to write a great research paper. In this talk, he advised the audience to start out the paper writing process with a pre-writing phase. Only once that’s done should they go to research. Most people do this in the opposite way. They get their idea, they go do a bunch of resear...
