I just now decided to start a little bit of a 15-20 page paper given to me at the start of the semester on Biometrics and how they help in deterring, capturing, arresting, and prosecuting criminals. Basically some CSI: Miami shit. It is due in ~6 weeks, but I wanted to finish early in the hopes it helps me get a good grade. I banged out almost 3 pages (about 1.5 pages of which are direct quotes [copy+paste] from Wikipedia about the O.J. Simpson Trial and the Colin Pitchfork trial, but I have put "Citation Needed" so I can go back to them and make sure I don't plagiarize). This just makes me curious to know this:

What is the longest paper you have ever written?

50 page analysis of International banking strategies and future tactics. That was the longest for school. Longest ever was a business proposal to enter a new market, it was about 75 pages of information and analysis. Took about 3 months.

God damn. (Wrote due to shock and to piss Mark Strong off if he is looking)

Yeah, if you are gonna pursue a master's degree you can pretty much count on 20 page papers being the standard, and having a few of them each semester.

Also, don't use Wikipedia as a source. Professor's hate it. If you want information relating to trials and judgements, www.findlaw.com is your friend.

Yeah. I know all about how Wikipedia can be edited by anybody, but I was just using it here for general things such as the DNA contamination in the O.J. Trial, and how the Pitchfork trial was the first to use DNA. I have books at home but was working with what I had. Findlaw.com is great. I used it in my Penal Law class for looking up precedent many times.

I've written 2 30page papers before. One was one the Watergate scandal and the other ont he Kennedy assassination.

How the hell do you write 30 pages on the Kennedy assassination? Was like 20 of it Conspiracy Theories?

i hate writing....i can remember complaining and not doing book reports in grade school. continued through high school and into college. my first year of college, we had a 15 page paper due for a class.....i got drunk and wrote the whole thing the night before. have no idea what i wrote either. but it passed.

ironically enough, im a huge bookworm. LOVE to read. but hate to write. i cant even imagine anything 20+pages. i'd say fuck it.

Eh, I was taught that for each page, you should have once source. I'm kinda using that philosophy...and the source is covering the page. It's my last semester and the Professor is my homie.

I have to perform a thesis for Pharmacy school. It's going to take me about 6 months and a 75-100 page written report on Anti-Arrhythmic or Diuretics (haven't decided), and after all is written, I have to defend my thesis against 3 panel judges. Can't wait.

10 pager.. and WIKIPEDIA FTL in research papers

I've written 2 30page papers before. One was one the Watergate scandal and the other ont he Kennedy assassination.

yea, alot of it was on conspiracy theories, and lots of the specific details of the bullet path/wounds, etc, etc.

Ok...I will paraphrase from the Wikipedia article so I don't even have to cite it. Is that better?

yeah, but make sure it is accurate.

You're better off looking on the bottom of the wiki to see what sources they used, then going ot those individual sites.

I thought about that, but I didn't see the wikipedia using direct quotes from the individual sites...

I had to write maybe a 10 page paper tops. I am in engineering for a reason. We do write stuff quite often but usually it is just something short, usually around 3-8 pages with charts and graphs thrown in.

10 pages, not that bad, but I'm a math major.

/bumped for ark

20 pages.

Mine turned out to be 17.5 and I only got a fucking B+.

That's too bad. I've got a monopoly on the 85-95% range.

Three pages.

I'm good at condensing information. I don't give the bullshit.

Ummm a B+ is around a 90 Mr. Ark.

Ummm a B+ is around a 90 Mr. Ark.

Not where I come from. That's ridiculous. What's an A+ then, 98-100?

We don't have A+. Above a B+ is an A- and then an A. An A- is 91-95 and an A is a 96-100

a+ is traditionaly above 100%

That means no collage offers a+. Unless of course you attend a web based online degree program like ark

That means no collage offers a+. Unless of course you attend a web based online degree program like ark

You guys are fucking backwards. In Canada, college is like the applied stream in high school. University is the academic. Every university that I am aware of around here has the same grade scheme, a range from F (below 50) to A+ (above 89).

F is below 50? Wtf...I think it's 65 here.

depends on the class

Different classes have different grade schemes?

yep, at least at my school it's basically up to the professor

60 pages for law journal / graduation requirement

yep, at least at my school it's basically up to the professor

So how do they determine your average then?

you mean of all the classes combined or what?

I know classes in my major I had to get at least a C in or they = fail.

you mean of all the classes combined or what?

Yeah.

I know classes in my major I had to get at least a C in or they = fail.

Is that the same as failing though? I have to maintain a certain average in certain classes to stay in the program, but I can get below that average and still pass the course.

our grades are only recorded as letters, so an A is an A.. you just may need to get 90%+ in some classes vs. 93%+ in others to earn the A
so in theory you could get the same number grade in two classes but end up with different letter grades

That strikes me as unnecessarily complicated.

nah, it's not at all really.. it just takes into account that some classes have more difficult material than others
science/math classes tend to have 90+ as an A, while it's usually 93+ in psych/lib arts

Ah, that makes sense. I guess we're just behind the times then. I think we still use mercury in our thermometers.

Yeah.



Is that the same as failing though? I have to maintain a certain average in certain classes to stay in the program, but I can get below that average and still pass the course.

Nope. Credit doesn't count in a Criminal Justice class (CRJ) if you get below a C. If it were Behavioral Science (BHS), you could get a D and it would count. They make you take a C all over again. Luckily, I never got a C in a CRJ course.