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What's the longest research/critical paper you've ever written?

97 pages for my senior thesis before earning my BA. Before that it was only 60 ish on the history of architecture, one style in particular of course. Combined with a group 200 it was a book. I presume my thesis for my masters will be quite large. I'm looking forward to it. I really enjoy research papers. I hate formatting though.
 
Three training portfolios at 80 pages each and one MSc dissertation at about 60 pages.

I'm in no hurry to do a doctorate!
 
5,000 words (7 pages or so) in my senior high school economics class. I had to analyze the MP3 market and say if the iPod should be considered a monopoly or not.
 
"A Critical Comparison of different Granulation Routes in the Pharmaceutical Industry" is currently 75 pages long and a total of 12638 words. It is my 3rd Design project for my degree, MEng Chemical Engineering with Management. There are lots of graphs about 40. It will more than likely double in pages by the time I have finished it.


Next year I have two research projects to do co-currently.
 
Most of my Ecology Lab papers average 40-50 pages, and the next one on food webs should be a fair bit larger.
I've never written a paper over 60-70 pages, and certainly don't look forward to it! Seeing as I have to churn out a 30-something page paper every week for my different labs, Leareth's method helps A LOT!
Leareth said:
now I can just write something like this for the methods : "as in Doe et al. 1999" and skip 10 pages of text
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Of course, that means I have to read a few different methods by different authors, which isn't exactly the most fun thing to do
 
i can't remember which one has been the longest one but it could be around 50 pages. however it's something i am pretty used to. i have to write two 30 page essays for class in february and another two of about 10 pages. it's common when you're studying philosophy.
 
My senior research paper on RFID technology in the supply chain was about 26 pages with 3-4 pictures. It would have been 24 without the pictures. So much fun.
 
I wrote a 23 page paper my junior year of undergrad. It had a smattering of pictures and was about ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) transmissions across WANs. Very fascinating stuff....
 
about 25 pages or so i think. i might have done a 30 at some point though too.

i miss writing papers. it was always a fun challenge for me.
 
dllavaneras said:
Most of my Ecology Lab papers average 40-50 pages, and the next one on food webs should be a fair bit larger.
I've never written a paper over 60-70 pages, and certainly don't look forward to it! Seeing as I have to churn out a 30-something page paper every week for my different labs, Leareth's method helps A LOT!


Of course, that means I have to read a few different methods by different authors, which isn't exactly the most fun thing to do
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I though the same for my lab courses when I did realize that they are all copying each other and there really arent that many different acceptable ways of doing most labs. I can usually get away with writing : procedure modified from/after Doe et al. 1999, or based on smith and white 2005. all you have to mention is how you changed it. saves lots of time and plus your profs should be up to date on the various methods/techniques/procedures. :cool: :D , I dont expect the upper level students to outline the history and reasoning for using that particular method, if it is an accepted method tell which used and done. :rolleyes:
 
About 18 for my GCSE Chemistry coursework. Not sure if that counts, but still....I once wrote about 15 pages on the Greenhouse Effect in about 3 days (only about 3 hours each day).
 
longest i think was one i did only a couple of months ago. 12+ page research paper on bradykinins for indedpendent study. got an A on it.

that's the longest single paper i've done in my life, most of my major essays have been around 10 pages (did another one just last week prior to graduating with a bs in biology, 3.41 gpa and conceration in biotech)

i feel for the ones that have to write a really long essay for high school though. most of the busisness school sutdents however did like 20 page essays alot.
 
Probably around 3000 words. That will change next year to about 10 000 when I write my thesis
 
I'm only a freshman in college, so I've yet to write anything particularly long. I just turned in an 8 page paper on "The Portrayal of Ethnic Women in Print Advertising" which wasn't so bad. I think that's about my longest...most average about 6-7 pages.
 
Even though I have good technical skills, I don't really enjoy putting together a big writing project. For my master's I wrote several short (3-5 pp.) papers a week. But, I never had a big paper to write save for a 17 pager, which was the beginnings of a research paper. It was designed to give us a feel for a long-term research project.
 
The longest paper I've ever actually completed with 10 pages (I've written a few of these. I actually wrote one tonight), but I'm in the process of writing my undergraduate honors thesis that looks like it will be 25-30 pages.
 
My MS thesis was about 200 pages on growing woody perennial plants in recycled paper containers.

I did that transformation stuff in college too, but I was doing it in a research lab, not in the classroom. That was always fun stuff to do, especially when you finally understood what you were doing!
 
I've reached 17 pages. A lot for me relative to what I normally write, but nothing compared to what some people here have pulled off... :eek:

It had to do with gate communities in LA.
 
8 to 10 pages Id guess. Most were not too long. Id write the majority of my English papers in my 40 min. study hall beforehand. Quantity wasnt good and content was so-so but my English teacher had a crutch for well-flowing, entertaining writing.
 
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