Welcome to the adult world - an insane world where reading a 300 page book and writing a report on it will not take you two hours any more. College assignments require more time, understanding, commitment and analytical skills. This means that to be able to write an assignment in college, you will have to:
- Plan more time for collecting and processing data. If a term paper in school had to have a list of references of no less than three sources, a college term paper will take you more time and definitely more additional materials. In a college assignment data used has to be diverse. You will need not only text books, but articles from specialized journals, newest statistics and critical evaluation. All of these sources have to be processed carefully. In college assignments valuable information from additional sources has to be condensed.
- If a high school research paper took you less than five pages, get ready for more with college assignments. The reason for this is simple. Since all the assignments in college require more additional sources, it is quite natural you will need more space to fit the processed data and your own findings. Does not sound all that optimistic, does it? Well, if this will calm you down – all of us had to go through writing at least one college assignment. After you get used to it, a high school term paper will seem like a joke to you.
- College assignments are about understanding the elements of writing from a new viewpoint. Are you sure you know what is a thesis statement? Check it out again, because in a college assignment a thesis statement becomes more than a key idea. In college assignments it is a unifying factor, the basics of all basics, and your ultimate headache.