I learned, early on in my education that, including a bibliography was an important part of research papers. The first one that I wrote did not include a bibliography, as I did not feel like writing it and didn’t think that one small page could really affect the final mark that much. And, really it didn’t.

So, when it came time to hand in my second essay, to the very same teacher, I decided to try this again. This time it blew up in my face. Because I had been too lazy to do this, she gave me an incomplete mark and I ended up getting a big fat zero for the assignment. I decided then, that maybe it was important to do all the work after all.

All of the term papers that I have written since then, have included the bibliography. The funny thing about this is that it really only takes about five minutes to do this and I ended up with a low mark in a class because I was too lazy to do five minutes worth of work. It doesn’t make sense after spending ours writing the actually paper. I will never take something like this for granted ever again.