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Set your pot of coffee on the table, pour your first (or tenth) cup. Get ready to apply a straightforward strategy to write your college paper in one night: TRIAC. TRIAC is a principle for quickly organizing your paper, and it will help you get done even more quickly if you start out with it as you do your research:

Topic - what will you write about?
Restriction - how can it be narrowed to a thesis statement? You will need to restrict the topic to a manageable size for both preparing and writing your paper.

Illustrations - what examples, evidence, data and quotes support your (restricted topic) thesis?
Analysis - how do the illustrations fit together, what do they mean, what are the arguments that connect the "dots" of the illustration, why is all this important or significant information, why is you thesis important? This is the heart of your actual thought and writing.
Conclusion - round up the loose ends, summarize the main points, and leave your professor (or teacher) feeling that the paper is finished, complete.

Apply the magic of TRIAC to these three keys for unlocking the one-night paper:

A.) Mastering research strategies: define interesting questions in short-order and refine search strategies that work quickly. This key gives you the "T," Topic and the "R," Restriction (that leads to Thesis) of TRIAC.

B.) Applying quick reading strategies: use notes, summarize sources from abstracts, paraphrase passages, quote selectively, question sources, analyze the relationship between ideas, and critique sources. This gives you the "I," Illustrations.

C.) Using the writing process on the fly to develop and narrow the question (topic), draft, and revise your paper: Putting TRIAC all together! This will give you the "A," Analysis, and "C," Conclusion.

1.) Master research strategies by first defining interesting questions using the assignment. One way to define a question is to look at parts of a key phrase from the assignment and ask questions about each word. For instance, the assignment for this article is how to write a research paper in one night. There are three key words: paper, research, write (or writing). "How to" is general (how to build a house?) and "one night" is too restrictive. So, with those key words, brainstorm questions.

You might ask why is it called a paper? The answer might be because it is written on a product called "paper." What is paper? What is its history? How does the history of paper relate to the history of writing? Of research writing? Such

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