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**Eh085zE7** · 02-26-2006, 08:00 AM

Darrell Max Craig's "The Heart of Kendo". In it, he has a few chapters on conversations with a samurai. His teacher was a direct descendant of a long line of samurai.

I don't think it's too ambitious. After all, look at the numbers of masters theses that have been written on one small topic. I'm sure you'll do fine, and don't be afraid to use material from the books, just make sure you properly cite it in footnotes. That way, most of the hard work is already done for you. You might consider your own thoughts on what impact kendo and/or other martial arts have made on you, and incorporate that in your paper. Think of the various articles of clothing we wear in kendo, what the meanings of the pleats in the hakama are, why we wear hakama and keikogi, what kind of feeling does kendo give you during class/practice?

2500 words is really just around 2.5 pages, typed, double-spaced, on standard paper. The estimate is 1,000 words per page, although it also depends on your font, too. The wonderful thing about writing papers now is that you have a computer with a word-processing program on it. When I went to college back in the 1970's, computers were big hulking monsters that didn't understand word processing. It wasn't until the advent of the PC and the Apple lines, that home computers took off. Just don't get any white-out on your monitor screen, it's a bear to get it off once it dries.

02-26-2006, 08:00 AM	#5
Eh085zE7 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 416 Senior Member	Darrell Max Craig's "The Heart of Kendo". In it, he has a few chapters on conversations with a samurai. His teacher was a direct descendant of a long line of samurai. I don't think it's too ambitious. After all, look at the numbers of masters theses that have been written on one small topic. I'm sure you'll do fine, and don't be afraid to use material from the books, just make sure you properly cite it in footnotes. That way, most of the hard work is already done for you. You might consider your own thoughts on what impact kendo and/or other martial arts have made on you, and incorporate that in your paper. Think of the various articles of clothing we wear in kendo, what the meanings of the pleats in the hakama are, why we wear hakama and keikogi, what kind of feeling does kendo give you during class/practice? 2500 words is really just around 2.5 pages, typed, double-spaced, on standard paper. The estimate is 1,000 words per page, although it also depends on your font, too. The wonderful thing about writing papers now is that you have a computer with a word-processing program on it. When I went to college back in the 1970's, computers were big hulking monsters that didn't understand word processing. It wasn't until the advent of the PC and the Apple lines, that home computers took off. Just don't get any white-out on your monitor screen, it's a bear to get it off once it dries.
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