Comments | pekkiou: english paper advice

pekkiou

english paper advice

May 15, 2005 11:54

Quick, I need help. Let's say I need to write a 5,000 word english paper.. Does that word count usually include the quotations from the texts? I mean, what if I have a few loong quotes (indented and size 10 font)- can I exclude those from the total count? which might give me another 500 words or so.. both a good thing and a bad thing ( Read more... )

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coraeis May 15 2005, 12:35:15 UTC

Uhhh... I don't think you exclude text. But I could be wrong. I haven't written papers in a while! Brevity, Maki, brevity! :).

Good luck!

pekkiou May 15 2005, 13:25:13 UTC

erm.. yeah, I just realized I haven't written an english paper since freshmen year now. I'm having trouble with my past and present tenses too.. because I think I'm suppose to use present tense when talking about literature (ie. In The Wasteland Eliot describes the city as...) however, I have to use the past tense when describing modernism as a historical movement. (ie. Orwell believed industrialism brought a decline ... ) so I have this really awful mix of past and present tense and I don't know what to do about it... do you think that is okay? or am I wrong? is the whole thing suppose to be in one tense? sigh, I'm stressing because this paper is 100% of my grade. and it's a decent rough draft but it needs to somehow become a good final draft in a few days.

but thanks so much for your advice and well wishes. I really appreciate it!

blueberrymilano May 15 2005, 17:38:24 UTC

In Switzerland you include all text (including quotes) in the word count as well as the index of contents but not the abstract nor the works cited. Then again, I don't even know if you have to have all those things... Hope this helps?

blueberrymilano May 15 2005, 17:41:06 UTC

In fact you probably don't need any of those things (unless they specifically tell you to) so I guess this isn't very helpful. But umm...on the bright side, by the time you read this you'll probably already have finished your paper?

pekkiou May 15 2005, 19:19:20 UTC

Thanks Aude! You are right, I just got to my 5000 words including quotes and everything. Thanks for reminding me to include my works cited page.. completely slipped my mind despite the fact that I have citations up the whazoo ( ... )