I wrote a 4 page paper for my international business class in 1 hour, including research.

oh yea, got an "A" :grinpimp:

 

That's the whole point foolios: it was too short for the amount of stuff we were supposed to cover. Here's what the assignment was:

Question 1:
Did the United States act as an imperialist power between 1898 and 1945?
1. Describe the perspectives offered by:

• William Appleman Williams
• Emily Rosenberg
• John Lewis Gaddis
• Jeremy Suri

2. Make sure you refer to:

• The Spanish-American War of 1898
• The [Theodore] Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1904)
• William Howard Taft's "dollar diplomacy"
• Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal Diplomacy
• The Grand Alliance (allied during WWII)

Question 2:
How did Technology revolutionize the international system between 1898 and 1945?
1. Decribe the perspectives offered by:

• Russell Weigely
• Emily Rosenberg
• Jeremy Suri

Make sure you discuss:

• Industrialization
• Naval warfare
• International communications
• Air power
• The atomic bomb
• Changing balances of military power

Type a 1000 word answer for each of the questions. You may consult books and lecture notes while you prepare your answers. Make sure that you answer each question as fully as possible. Discuss all of the issues, readings, and lectures itemized in each question.

So yeah, basically it's a whole lot of material to cover and not much space to do it in.

 

Damn Democrat communists infesting my fair city!




I love you mike...........now lets get drunk!

 

what year did Columbus sail the ocean blue?

 

4 score and seven years ago

 

I was a history major in college and that ish sounds almost exactly like questions I used to get. History professors are really concerned about their students being able to cram as much info into a small space as possible. It really doesn't leave much room for analysis, and you end up just "mentioning" events in one or two lines that should have at least a couple paragraphs of analysis.

I think the profs are just tired of all the reading they have to do for the course, so they try to make things short. I once had a final paper due, and the prof said "So I want a 10 page paper...", and didn't say anything about going over that amount. I wrote a 23 page paper because I had a great topic, did a lot of research, and was really interested in the material. The prof made me cut the damn thing down to 10 pages after I turned it in. "Too long" he said. :madfawk: Oh well, he still gave me an A, I just ended up doing a bunch of extra work. I was really proud of that paper, too.

 

are you sure it was 1000 words max?

 

I know when i went to temple one professor would deduct points for every extra page u had on there...so if u had a 5 page paper and u handed in 7 pages he would deduct points from your grade....I didnt like that

 

jeez...i wish they would add points to that rule. i'm usually struggling to make the minimum because i could write an in-depth paper with very few words.

 

Thats absurd. College history papers should not be that structured. Part of higher education is getting your brain to bring in relevent information when required. This assignment doesn't require anything beyond Wikipedia.