Comments on: Let us figure out why I’m so bad at writing papers

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:29:37 +0000

Yeah, I didn’t blog during my harder semesters either. It’s really shocking how time consuming blogging is.

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:28:57 +0000

Darn it!

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:28:34 +0000

Now that’s an interesting image O.o

I do find that my best ideas come to me in the shower but I never stopped to think about why that is.

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:27:41 +0000

I find that helps too. It’s not enough to keep me motivated, but it’s true that the hardest part is actually getting started with a title and getting momentum going.

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:26:28 +0000

Yeah, I’m the same, I’m always impressed about how productive I can be the night before something is due. If only I could be that efficient all the time, my life would be so much easier.

By: Angelya

Angelya — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:25:42 +0000

Hate to tell you, but it won’t stop anytime soon. I have this exact same problem at work every day

By: Tarinae

Tarinae — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:04:12 +0000

“Anyone have any insight on why it takes me a week to write a 2 paged paper?”

Diagnosis: You’re in college.

This behavior is the norm; don’t worry, the side-effects wear off sometime after May.

On a side note: I am glad I wasn’t blogging when I had to write my 30 page senior thesis! <3

By: LabRat

LabRat — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:04:15 +0000

It lacks my critical step, which is “write outline in head, while showering”. It is impossible to find another distraction while naked, blind, and covered in soap.

By: Iris

Iris — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:27:51 +0000

I have no helpful insights to add as I am completely the same and can only be thankful for no longer needing to write papers.

By: Antigen

Antigen — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:12:10 +0000

I’m not sure if this will help you, but it helped me a LOT when writing papers and I don’t know why:

When you’re staring your writing assignment down, as if to peer into its soul and ascertain its essence, trying to mentally convince the paper to write itself…

I’ve found that simply writing my cover page / name, date, and title helps me get into the paper writing mood. It’s almost like it locks me into ‘author-mode.’

Or it could be that writing a relevant title (i.e. something other than ‘Paper 1′) helps you start thinking about the gist of what you want to say, and begins the necessary thought processes required to go through the source and analyze and critique its main points.