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Top 5 Ways to Impress Your Professor With That Term Paper

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Things are getting busy and since it's final paper time, we at The StagHen have taken time out of our schedule to provide fellow students with some valuable tips on how to improve that final essay.

Start Your Paper By Defining A Word
    It's important that your essay start with something creative. Something fresh. Something new. And defining a word is just the way to do that.  Often Professors don't know what a word like "government" or "literature" means. By starting your essay this way, you show to them that you have a detailed grasp of the concepts.

When In Doubt, Hitler is a Great Example
    Providing examples is crucial for an A paper. So when you really want to hammer that point home, there is no better place to look than the 20th century's most famous Nazi. Professors will appreciate this reference because it is easy for them to understand and won't require further explanation. For example, rather than saying "Raising the price floor for household commodities can lead to long run production inefficiencies." Say, "Raising price floors is bad, in WWII, while Hitler was committing genocide, he loved price floors. He wanted to pave the streets of europe with Nazi price floors."

When Using Commas, Better Safe, Than Sorry
    Commas, are pretty tricky to use, and unfortunately, many professors are sticklers, in this manner, but luckily, the fact is, no one really understands commas, so as long as you use enough, you'll be covered.

One Scarcely Harnesses the Thesaurus Sufficiently
    Professors respect students who use large and uncommon words. Or rather, Academics hold in high regard apprentices who manipulate prodigious extraordinary locution. Professors inevitably give the highest grades to the students who sound smart.  Pro tip: Always say "whom" instead of "who".

 Don't know how to end it?
    Just remember, the elipsis is your best friend. It says to professors, I'm thinking and you should be too.  If you need a real bomb to drop at the end of that paper, look no further: "And then I woke up, it was all a dream..."
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