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billy gunn
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01.25.2010, 08:17 PM

Lots of good suggestions have been posted. Post up a revision, so you can get some more feedback. A couple last thoughts for you, that I forgot to put in my first post.

1. As has been stated by others, this is like a resume. Look at some online resources or books on writing resumes.

2. I don't know if this is to be submitted electronically or a hard-copy, but a lot of electronically submitted papers are run though a program that determines what percentage of the paper has been "plagiarized" or cut and pasted. Even hard-copies can be scanned in and the same thing done to them. I don't know how common this is outside of my school, but every paper that goes though my university has to go though this. There is nothing wrong with asking people or this forum for help, but this thread will get pulled up if they do run your paper though one such search program. If you choose to use suggestions made in this thread, make sure that you put them in your own words. It may not seem like a big deal for a paper like this but later in your career, if not already, you will write technical papers that will get published. When you write a technical paper it is important to cite all your sources and do your own work.

I just finished up rough drafts of two technical journal papers. Both papers are fairly short, 20 pages, but they each have 30+ sources, even though the papers are on original work. I went through countless times to make sure that each piece of work that wasn’t mine was cited. I also went through countless times to make sure that each sentence was worded by me, and not cut and pasted. This process has been going on in the background for the last several months.
   
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