Word: papering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...friends. Even consider keeping a thesis journal as you go. Don't scan aimlessly through old magazines and random books looking for inspiration to strike. I tried it, and it was an entertaining waste of time. You're much more likely to run across a topic while researching a paper for a class in your area of interest. Which brings up an important method for choosing a topic...
...consider expanding a paper you wrote for a seminar or other course. It makes perfect sense to go back to your favorite paper from your college career; you know a lot about the subject, you know you find it interesting and you'll have a chunk of material to get you off the ground. That said, don't expect to use much of it in the end; by your 200th rewrite, not much of what you wrote in three nights last reading period will be left intact. To have a paper that you might reasonably expand into a thesis, however...
...America. My name Dan Quayle. This is my position paper speech for president of the United States. My teacher told me if I submitted a position paper, that would be a good thing to do to be president...
...cousin who just located Solomon Seif's burial place in Galion, Ohio, noticed on the gravestone that he had been a Civil War soldier. Konecny made note of that on a scrap of yellow legal-pad paper, and now she is spending a day at the Archives. She has been working on her German and French-Canadian family tree for 10 years, determined "to take all my family on both sides back to where they came from...
Slave marriages weren't recognized, so family records of descendants of Africans living in America prior to 1870 were often not recorded. But good paper trails do exist for black freemen who came as ship's crew members, not slaves. A good start: www.ccharity.com 212-491-2200, or www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html...