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Writing academic essays
| ask your professor
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focusing when I don't even know what to write. And I can't figure out what I want to write until I sit down and write.
I usually just write what I think and just label them with [citation needed], but when I get the facts wrong somehow that'll screw up the entire thing.
| That's why we have drafts, OP. Are you writing a multiple-chapter essay? If so, you can focus on the earlier chapters first (instead of thinking about the future chapters early on.)
If you have done your research and have found the materials to base your essay on, you can form paragraphs with them: focus on what you have as material and source.
| I can't write just so suddenly, I too, need to sit down and actually think of the subject of which I'm writing.
I usually make around two or three drafts. This is stupid, I know, some of my friends have said so themselves. But the drafts allow me to keep track where I'm going at, and if I think a draft is going nowhere, I either expunge them or merge them to a better draft.
Continue ad infinitum until the essay is finished.
| Here's my process that get's me solid B minuses:
1. read the wikipedia article on the topic just to familiarize myself
2. write a draft of the essay solely on my own ideas/stance without sources
3.hunt for sources with quotes that agree with whatever I'm saying and then insert them throughout the essay
4.profit
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Hahaha. I used to do this in my psych class as well. Thankfully, what I needed to do was to get sources that disagree with Freud.
It was an easy ride to a B.
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| How do you do it? I think we're supposed to do the research, read journals, collect references before sitting down to write, but I have problem focusing