BF2S Forums What's the largest paper or body of academic work you've undertaken?

for shits and grins i started to write a book about the soviet occupation of afghanistan.
i met Charlie Wilson (actually have his signature in my book, fuck the movie), Mike Vickers and Valentin Varennikov (who also hooked it up with a signature).
i put about eight months into it. a friend wanted to read it, so i let him take it. he got into a car accident, totaled his car, and i never saw it again.

no more of that...

I have aided in others research work, and original work that I have done is being prepared for publication currently.  I have one paper near complete and another in the works.

Other than that, I have completed a few research papers.  The most notable was a 30 page biography of Sir Isaac Newton.

Edit:  It occurs to me that I never said my topic of work.

The paper near complete is on computational models of outflows from young stellar objects.  I created synthetic observations and everything.  Lots of pretty pictures.

The paper that's in the works is on MHD jets in an inhomogeneous environment.

Last edited by SenorToenails (2008-04-17 07:59:36)

For my capstone project, I (and my team) researched, modeled, and documented the savings one could realize utilizing low/no cost energy conservation methods at a large industrial complex near my university. Ridiculously long, many appendices, graphs, tables, and whatnot.

Pug wrote:

FEOS wrote:

For my capstone project, I (and my team) researched, modeled, and documented the savings one could realize utilizing low/no cost energy conservation methods at a large industrial complex near my university. Ridiculously long, many appendices, graphs, tables, and whatnot.

I graduated before capstone was brought on.  But I did take some extra courses with the young college students.  I would have preferred to do that project on my own.  Group work blows.  That thing didn't look like a lot of fun.

Especially when it's you and four Malaysians who speak very little English.

It was like herding cats with a feather duster.

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I'm in the middle of writing my chemistry thesis which I'm currently distracting myself from. It'll probably hit about 60,000 words give or take. Either that or I'll go insane.

For the record, I would like to say I maintain an endless thist for knowledge and greater understanding, however that has sadly become deviated from acadamia.

Absolutely nothing. A mere 2500 words or so on Shakespeare. However, next year I'm undertaking around 4 or 5 minimum 5000 words essays for English Literature - indefinitely a lot longer.

Probably a 7-10 page paper. Nothing too big. Content over quantity.

Superior Mind wrote:

Probably a 7-10 page paper. Nothing too big. Content over quantity.

Greater content = greater quantity.

If you undertake a large, deep topic, chances are length is inevitable.

Then again, being repetitious is terrible.

Last edited by SenorToenails (2008-04-17 09:53:17)

PuckMercury wrote:

Superior Mind wrote:

Content over quantity.

Which I absolutely agree with on principle.  The 15000 words was a requirement sadly ... I freaking hate acadamia.

Explains why academics tend to not perform well outside of academia. They are about form over substance. If you turned in a 15,000 word report to your boss that could have been done in under 10k, you'd lose all kinds of credibility.

FEOS wrote:

If you turned in a 15,000 word report to your boss that could have been done in under 10k, you'd lose all kinds of credibility.

QFT

I learned more my first 3 months in the "real world" than I did in ... well ... more years than I care to admit in college.

18-page essay is the worst I've had so far - and that was my IB Extended Essay. I guess I'll see some real writing in uni.

-konfusion