How to write an A+ term paper, in 11 easy steps

Read this. It will help. I promise.

Going to an actual library helps.
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Term paper season is nearly upon us. Particularly for students of the humanities, this dreaded foe blocks the path to Christmas break with a daunting demand of 30, 40, even 50 double-spaced pages the weary student must somehow produce.

If you find yourself staring down just such a gauntlet, perhaps I can offer some help in the form of my A+ paper-writing system, which I now present to you.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.