Publisher's Synopsis
It's the night before a paper is due. You can't remember the last time you went to class, let alone did the reading. You're frantically Googling, but only finding low-quality content you don't think you can cite. You try to bluff it, but the only words you're confident of are your first and last name. You wonder if you should drop the class, turn the paper in late with a hefty deduction, or even turn to ethically questionable methods like buying a paper online. If any of this sounds familiar, HACKING PAPERS is for you. Deleuzienne, author of more than 5,200 student papers, has got your back. Filled with practical tips and encouragement, this book will give you the tools and strategies needed to write successful papers - even if you haven't done the reading. You will learn how to "hack" papers by developing strategies to make the process simpler and less painful. Best of all, the tips and strategies are designed to help you so that you won't have to pull a clueless all-nighter ever again. With empathy, wit, and practicality, Deleuzienne is here to help, and shows that writing papers isn't something only a few geniuses can do - even when you only have a few hours until the deadline. Whether you're a first-time student, a returning one, a grad student, or even a hobbyist with writer's block, this book will help you improve your research and writing strategies so that you can work smarter, not harder and achieve your goals. Here are a few comments from those who read this book: "Papers used to terrify me. I couldn't even tell you how often I dropped classes or got penalized for turning things in late. This book really helped me see that there are ways to simplify stuff that really stressed me out, like citations, and the resources in particular have me almost excited about the next paper I get. Maybe not excited exactly...but definitely feeling like I can do it!" - Current undergrad student "As a soon-to-be-student and a long-time-ago student I'm like, damn this is helpful...I remember papers as being incredibly stressful. This book introduced me to resources I did not even know existed and, most importantly, made me feel confident about writing papers" - A grad student who returned to school after many years "I wish someone had told me all this when I was in college or grad school...my dissertation would have been finished much faster." -A PhD and former academic"I'd definitely prefer that my students used the methods in this book instead of doing something dishonest or just taking a 0 for a paper. I think this book's methods will show them they can do it after all." - A composition course director
