It's hard to resort to the usual shortcuts for research essay writing when:
1. the marker is the writer of the authoritative textbook on that subject, that more than half of your arguments are derived from his writings.
2. the other possible marker is the recently retired High Court judge (coughGummowcough) who was on the bench for the constitutional case upon which your research task is formulated.
3. the other names that feature prominently in your essay work in the same building as your marker.
4. you almost failed your mid-term assessment the last time the marker (see number 1) marked your paper.
5. you only spent a week seriously working for this essay.
6. you stopped being on top of the readings halfway through the mid-semester.
7. there are not many people taking this course, so you know that the papers are likely to be marked by the same person. This means that your sorry excuse of an essay will be directly judged against the others'.
8. the lecturer (see number 1) has told you early on that the course is difficult, and that you have to work hard for any chance of doing even remotely well for the assessments.
10. you're 12 hours away from submission.
11. you have yet to finish your essay and the current state of citations is horrendous.
12. you have yet to proofread it to make sure that it at least makes sense.
13. all you want to do now is watch a pointless video and go to sleep!
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