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If you're having trouble coming up with a good topic for a research paper or a persuasive essay, you're not alone. For many college students, one of the hardest parts about learning how to write a term paper is simply coming up with good term paper topics! Fortunately, this part of college essay writing gets easier with practice
A good topic for a term paper needs to do the following things:
* It needs to be appropriate for the assignment. * It needs to be fairly easy to research and write about. * It needs to be something you know enough about to write about comfortably. * It needs to not be too broad (i.e. too large of a topic to cover in detail within the page length limits). * It needs to not be too narrow (i.e. too small of a topic to fill up enough pages for the assignment). * It needs to be interesting and important to you (or else you're going to get very bored). * It needs to be creative. Professors hate tired topics that everybody writes and speaks about.
Read more at Suite101: Choosing Topics for Term Papers: How to choose good topics for research papers and persuasive essays http://collegeuniversity.suite101.com/article.cfm/choosing_topics_for_term_papers#ixzz0cW0xoYrG
