Research Writing and College Life

We discussed in last week’s post some easy ways to come up with a topic for a term paper. This week, we can take that topic and turn it into something that will blow your professor away with its insight and originality. Let me give you an example – You find Shakespeare dull and boring and you have a term paper on Romeo and Juliet. How can you relate Romeo and Juliet to what you love and write about something that will wow the professor? How about writing an English term paper that compares the All-American Rejects song “Dirty Little Secret” to Romeo and Juliet? That is what I mean by making the paper relevant and contemporary, no matter what the topic is.

The key to a great a term paper topic is that it is relevant (which we already showed you how here) and contemporary. The key to making a term paper great is is to work writing that is creative into the paper. More precisely you will want to consider developing you skills in observation and imagination as well as becoming ardent readers and conversationalists. It is the skills in observation and imagination that establishes the experience knoweldge base that writers may draw upon when you are writing your term paper.

There are many other ways to create interesting topics. Initially, one can generate ideas by freewriting that is a technique for idea development, brainstorming, reading other sources, utilizing questions used by journalists, and reviewing memories. Once an idea is selected, the authors recommend that the writer “establish a chronology” and “show what happened”. These techniques assist in creating the first draft or outline, but it is not finalized until the work is sufficiently revised and edited, ensuring that the author has stated clearly and precisely what he or she has intended to write. Each step in this process is crucial to producing a term paper that is effective relevant and contemporary.

Another way to pick a topic is by what is called the resource of observation. This method has an advantage over memories in that the author has the capability to fully use his or her senses in obtaining this information. Thus, in observing some event, it is possible to capture the full array of sensation, such as the smells and tastes that are part of the overall observation. In developing ideas through observations, there are three suggestions. Brainstorming is recommended in order to generate numerous ideas that provides a pool from which to select one’s topic. Perhaps the most important advice here is to get out and look, record your observations and include images. This advice enhances one’s ability to make observations that can be utilized within the context of writing in the present or in the future. Additionally, one might find it useful to write down reactions to works or phrases that are encountered in works that are especially noteworthy. This necessitates and facilitates maintaining a reading journal. Such a book becomes a handy reference source for current and future projects.

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