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## [Starting Your Paper: The Sane Thing to Do](https://blog.credoreference.com/2015/02/starting-your-paper-the-sane-thing-to-do)
Posted by [Duncan Whitmire](https://blog.credoreference.com/author/duncan-whitmire) on 2/4/15 7:01 AM
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Remember that time you started your big term paper at the beginning of the semester instead of the end? How the feeling of calm and confident contemplation beat the panicked jitters of caffeine-fueled all-nighters?
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## [Starting Your Paper: Human Nature at its Best](https://blog.credoreference.com/2015/01/starting-your-paper-human-nature-at-its-best)
Posted by [Duncan Whitmire](https://blog.credoreference.com/author/duncan-whitmire) on 1/6/15 10:18 PM
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When it comes to starting a paper, you can learn a lot about human nature. Will our desire to seek knowledge be stymied by our addiction to Walking Dead marathons? Credo's Topic Pages are a great way to circumvent the procrastination trap: high-quality information from great sources, linking to more related topics, images, videos and more.
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## [The End of a Year, The Start of a Paper](https://blog.credoreference.com/2014/12/the-end-of-a-year-the-start-of-a-paper)
Posted by [Duncan Whitmire](https://blog.credoreference.com/author/duncan-whitmire) on 12/3/14 9:48 PM
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There are few times of the year more chaotic to college researchers than the month of December: finals preparations and holiday plans swirl around like a stress-themed snow globe. And through it all is the constant anxiety of knowing that several papers will have to be due before you can walk out the door into that sweet, crisp mid-winter freedom. If only there were some way to explore topics for your papers in a way that easily connected you to authoritative resources, images, full-length books, etc...
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## [Novel Ideas For Starting Your Paper](https://blog.credoreference.com/2014/11/novel-ideas-for-starting-your-paper)
Posted by [Duncan Whitmire](https://blog.credoreference.com/author/duncan-whitmire) on 11/18/14 10:45 AM
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November is National Novel Writing Month, a 30-day sprint where aspiring writers hustle to knock out 50,000 words. To understand NaNoWriMo's popularity, you must first recognize one of the hardest things about writing a novel: starting. The idea is that by confining the project to a definite starting and ending point, and tying in a sense of camaraderie and accomplishment, the task is easier to begin. Once December hits, writers embark into the long dark winter knowing that at least they have their 50,000 word rough draft, and they can begin the task of editing, a quantitatively easier task once there is something to edit.
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## [Starting Your Paper: The Clock is Ticking](https://blog.credoreference.com/2014/10/starting-your-paper-the-clock-is-ticking)
Posted by [Duncan Whitmire](https://blog.credoreference.com/author/duncan-whitmire) on 10/7/14 9:45 PM
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Tolkien once wrote, "It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish," and although the character he attributes that phrase to, Sam's old Gaffer, was probably talking about landscaping, he might as well have been describing one of the key pitfalls in writing a research paper. You can't finish what you don't start, and if you haven't finished that paper, you're probably feeling moderate-to-severe anxiety, which is quite frankly a less appealing state to be in than, say, the categorical bliss one experiences after making the final edits to a well-written paper. So what's holding you back?
[Starting Your Paper](https://blog.credoreference.com/topic/starting-your-paper-2), [Topic Pages](https://blog.credoreference.com/topic/topic-pages)
## [Starting Your Paper: Loched in On Scotland](https://blog.credoreference.com/2014/09/starting-your-paper-loched-in-on-scotland)
Posted by [Duncan Whitmire](https://blog.credoreference.com/author/duncan-whitmire) on 9/17/14 11:55 AM
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## [Starting Your Paper: No Time Like the Present to Write that History Paper](https://blog.credoreference.com/2014/09/starting-your-paper-no-time-like-the-present-to-write-that-history-paper)
Posted by [Duncan Whitmire](https://blog.credoreference.com/author/duncan-whitmire) on 9/10/14 7:00 AM
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Selecting a historical topic for a research paper means choosing from a continuously expanding pool of material, with each tick of the clock bring more of the past into
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## [Starting Your Paper: Procrastination Is Not a Research Strategy](https://blog.credoreference.com/2014/08/procrastination-is-not-a-research-strategy)
Posted by [Duncan Whitmire](https://blog.credoreference.com/author/duncan-whitmire) on 8/15/14 8:00 AM
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It's safe to assume that if procrastination could be converted into energy, we'd never need oil again. Or wind power, solar, and whatever Elon Musk is cooking up combined. *Writing* a paper isn't that big a deal for your average college student, but *starting* a paper comes with a veritable potpourri of anxiety, doubt, frustration and dread. We came up with this weekly blog post to give you the tips, inspiration and encouragement you need to embark upon whichever paper looms next on your horizon.
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