Dienstag, 17. Dezember 2013

Samstag, 14. Dezember 2013

Writing an academic paper - Progress

As I am, as probably most of the other students as well, currently preparing for my remaining exams and presentations, I have not had a lot of time to continue working on my academic paper. Even so I have spent some time on reading through my sources in order to inform myself about the content I am going to write about. I have already finished summarizing the history of ASEM two weeks ago, which leaves me with a finished introduction and first paragraph. As soon as my last exams are over, on Tuesday, I will continue to work on my paper and step by step finish every paragraph during the upcoming winter vacation.

I think, and hope, that as long as I am interested in my topic I will be able to finish the first draft shortly after Christmas, which should give me enough time to improve my text afterwards.

Throughout the last few weeks I have also become more aware of the things I will have to be careful about when I finally start to write my paper. I will have to clearly mark the sources I used for each few phrases or paragraphs, check the proper format of my bibliography and inform myself on how to quote from another text.