The Term Paper (aka research paper)

rspence
Sun, 11 Nov 2012 22:25:35 +0000

@Descuff, math research papers are not that uncommon…I wrote a six page paper on odd perfect numbers once, which isn’t really that much compared to other mathematical literature.

Once you see the research that people have done, you will see that a five page paper isn’t all that much, let alone one to two pages. I took a research methods class in HS, most students were writing 10-20 page papers on their work.

Right now at MIT, I’m currently not taking a writing course (“CI-H”) but even the weekly problem sets for calculus, physics, chemistry, typically take me about 4-8 pages each to write the solutions.