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By TARA REINHART
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Paper-wad piles obscure trash cans. Stacks of musty
smelling books dominate desks. Dictionaries and thesauruses
leave their, shelves to assume rare, prostrate postitions.
Kroger s sells all its erasable-bond typing paper.
People enter Davis Library for the first time. The
Undergraduate Library looks like a K Mart in mid
December. The click, click, click ding of typewriters
and occasional profanities echo out windows.
It's that time of the semester.
Having to write term papers fits in the sure-thing category
with death and taxes. People handle the torture differently.
"Half the time 1 wander aimlessly around the library,"
said Steven Valentine, a freshman from Scarsdale, N.Y. He
does this to procrastinate or because he cannot find the
research materials he needs, he said.
"It's really frustrating, because a lot of people are writing
research papers right now," said Kelleigh Smith, a freshman
from Wilmington. "The library is just scrambled."
Smith said she armed herself with a long list of books
before looking for sources. She said she found few of the
books she needed.
The professor who assigned the paper told students to
start early, Smith said, to allow for research time.
Hank Powell, director of the University Reading and Study
Skills Program, said people should plan far ahead before
trying to write term papers.
A good guide is to double the time it takes to complete
a paper, Powell said. This leaves time for problems that
may arise, he said.
People always should begin with an outline, Powell said.
"The reality is that most people just start writing and don't
have a clear plan. WeVe all done one the night before it's
due."
Bert Harrill, a senior from Winston-Salem, said he wrote
each piece of a detailed outline on a separate notecard. He
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then spreads the cards on his floor in outline form. :
"1 make my room a mess," he said.
By using the floor and notecards, Harrill said, he could
rearrange his paper as often as necessary in minimal time.
Since this organizes his paper so well, Harrill said, he usually
writes only one draft.
"IVe gotten away with it for four years," he said. "You're
not supposed to do that."
Greg Needham, a junior from Charlotte, said he wrote
out ideas and developed a thesis before beginning the body
of a paper.
"1 always have a specific plan," he said. "After that I'm
fine to go and write."
"Any good paper," Powell said, "needs to have at least
a couple of drafts. That takes time."
Students should put their ideas on paper as a first draft,
he said. "Then, rework, cut, paste, x-out sections and move
things aound."
The Reading Program keeps drafts of professionally
written works on file to show students the effort that goes
into a good paper.
"If students could see the amount of rewriting and
scratching out and dissecting that goes into a piece of
professional writing," Powell said, "they'd see the value of
taking time." .
Teresa Smith, a freshman from Wadesborp, said she set
deadlines to keep ahead of the schedule her professor set.
"Once you're behind, youll have to do a rush job, and
it shows," Smith said.
"I'm a bad procrastinator," Valentine said.
When attempting to write, he said, he sometimes takes
breaks by spinning in a swivel chair. He also picks edges
off spiral notebook paper and uses them as spit wads.
"Sometimes I spit them into the air and try to catch them
in my mouth," he said.
Quinton Smith, a junior from Alexandra, VA., said he
delayed writing a paper by doing chores he ordinarily would
not do.
"I write letters that I would never write," he said. "I do
a lot of cleaning and organizing."
Smith said he waited until other assignments backed up
and press him for time before he began a paper.
Students who have trouble starting term papers should
refer to English 1 and 2 material, which provides the basics
for writing a good paper, Powell said.
"For those who had English 1 and 2," he said, "dont
forget what you did, and don't sell your handbook. It's all
there."
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Most recently, the surf club competed
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