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The Little Seagull Handbook

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Another bullet point that helped me out is to really know about my subject before I decide write a whole paper on it. Nobody can write a whole paper that makes sense on something they didn’t research or even put effort in trying to learn about it, and sometimes that's how I feel when I write papers for classes. After I turn a paper in I think to myself: Did I do enough research about this?, Did I tell them the main points or just the details?, Did I even tell them enough of the topic I researched?. The Little Seagull Handbook has really helped me to be able to answer those questions confidently. It helped me to understand things on my topics for my papers a lot easier. It put everything in an organized bullet point format and subsections to
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