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Let's face it all of us have less and less time to do all the things that need to be done in a day. Do teachers understand that? Nope!

Writing a paper for school need not be a chore when you can pick up some hot tips right here on how to write a college term papers in less time. Get that A or B in less time than it takes to get that C or D grade. I will show you how I was able to write 5 and 7 page papers in under 2 hours. Want to know how I got an A in a class that required me to read books with 300 pages or more and write a 5 page paper every week?... and guess what? I never read any of the books.

Writing a great paper for school is not all that hard. Trust me I was in school longer than I wanted to be but in my entire college career I never received less than a B on a paper and that was for the papers I was not too excited about. So for all you college students out there I will reveal some of my tricks of the trade.

First, most college students write incredibly horrible papers. So, you have an advantage from the get-go because your professors will be relieved not to be reading garbage if you even write clearly. Okay now that all of that is out of the way you can stop being scared about papers. Now, for that infamous class that I took: the 7 books with 300 pages or more to read in a week and write a paper due at 12 midnight Sunday... while I was working full time and! taking four other classes! in a shortened summer semester. My idea of hell times two.

So, you know I had to come up with a system for banging out papers in less time, skipping reading the boring books on history and getting an A in the class.

1. You don't have to read the book to know what it's about.

If you are familiar with the theme of the book do this: Read the Table of Contents, The first and last paragraphs of every chapter, and try to read the last chapter as much as possible. This is where the author summarizes the book generally. Also, go over the index or glossary so you know what kinds of words are used in the book so that when it comes time to write the paper you can use those words in the paper to make it sound like you actually read the book.

By reading the first and last part of any chapter you will know first what argument the author is making and the last paragraph tends to reveal their complete thoughts on an entire chapter. It's like a mini summary of an entire chapter.

2. Outline your paper on a scratch piece of paper

It's easy: First, in one sentence write what your paper is about at the top. If that one sentence does not describe your entireeeee paper keep revising that one sentence until it does. This is the gold of the paper. Trust me, it's the most important sentence. Only one sentence! and not a word more. Now that one sentence is the seed of the whole paper. Think of your paper as a tree. Every paragraph has to grow off that one sentence. Like car is to tire as leaf is to tree.

Now, write one sentence or word for each paragraph that is the essence of each particular paragraph that you are going to write. So, now you should have a sketch paper that looks like bullet points. Glance over the bullets to make sure they are reasonably related to what your paper is going to be about and move the bullets around if you need to in order to make sure your paper has good order. When the bullet points have good order this is vaguely what we would call good "flow" to a paper.

Go into the book and pick out points or facts as many as you need for each paragraph that match or support each paragraphs bullet point sentence. Do it this way. Look in the index for words related to each paragraph that you are going to write. Go back in the book to the specified pages that the index tells you to go to and find facts or points that support each paragraph. Write the facts or points of interest down under the appropriate paragraph that you sketched out earlier in bullet points.

Don't forget to write down the page numbers!! If you need it for some kind of reference page at the end of your paper!

Now, Flesh out your paper by quickly writing about each topic sentence for all the paragraphs and also add in what you think or want to say if need be. Second, flesh out the facts or points you found for each paragraph.

Read the paper once to make sure it sounds cool and it ends logically with a good closing paragraph. If you have time set the paper aside for an hour or a day and then come back to it and read it over again to spot any other additional things to correct. When writing it always helps to get "away" from what you are writing and clear your brain and then go back to it.

On your first college term paper this technique might take a bit getting used to but it sure beats hours of pulling your hair out. It will save you loads of time too in getting papers completed.

I hope you enjoyed this article and to your success!

p.s. DON'T forget to run your paper through a (spell checker) guys.