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Let’s say you have an 8 page paper on Medicaire, and your thesis is that “…the hospitals, insurance companies, pharmaceutical manufacturers and the government contribute to the dysfunctional expenditure that is crippling America.” If you had a thesis like that, you may want to apportion out the responsibility to your four primary contributors in succession. That is, you would fully discuss hospitals’ role, then insurance companies, and so on.
If you just start right in on an 8 page paper like this, without planning, it is pretty likely something to do with pharmaceuticals would end up in the insurance section. This is not such a big deal if it happens once, or twice, but a paper filled with a random recounting of facts is going to lead your teacher to conclude that you did it in a hurry.
The trick is to do the paper in a hurry, but make it look like you took your time.
There are lots of ways to organize the medical paper; you could go by date, listing the relevant actions, legislation and scandals chronologically. Or you could come up with a list of core events or issues that have most strongly shaped the outcome of Medicaire, and ‘cross reference’ them with your primary actors. For example, one core event could be the rise in cost of malpractice insurance. You could do an italic header The rise of Malpractice, then explain how hospitals, drug and insurance companies and the government contributed to malpractice.
There are lots of paths to take with your paper. Whichever one you choose, make certain that you define it well, and then stick to your own plan. Bad grades happen when creativity gets out of hand. If Maid Creativity lowers your grade, then she is a haughty poseur whose masque has been stripped away and true identity revealed- Sloppiness! And people who cling to their right to be sloppy in the name of creativity are fast and loose thinkers. They do not realize what is in their own best interests. Don’t be one of them, kids! Do your papers the right way- the GoodTermPaper way!
This article was written by the Editor in Chief at www.Goodtermpaper.com
