The guide to handle one of most important tasks in your life.
Certainly sometimes you are assigned with the term paper
topic, but sometimes you have the possibility to choose one.
It seems so easy yet so many students either have failed their
assignments or did not write the paper they wanted to because no
interesting, exciting and challenging topic had been chosen.
Many students follow some simple and mistaken route- they choose
the topics according to its popularity-if it is popular nowadays
to evaluate this event or research this subject, than it might
be worth my while to write the term paper on this subject as
well. However, your interest, the topic that attracts your
attention is what matters.Once famous Chinese philosopher
Confucius said: "Choose a job you like and you will never have
to work a day in your life." What pertains to the life in
general, pertains to the process of writing and designing of
your term paper. Your aptitude to the term paper as well as your
enthusiasm and your eagerness with which you will research,
depends on that.
Your term paper will be more interesting to read and will gain
consequently more points if you choose the topic that really
concerns you rather than pick up the topic that will leave you
indifferent. Once you have chosen the topic, you can start
organizing it. Your topic, whatever subject you research should
not be too broad. At this stage it might be advisable to consult
with your tutor. He will be able to advise you on this point;
however most of the tutors require making of the topic more
specific. For example one should not choose the topic "History
of American continent in the 20th century". Unless you write
some 100 pages book, you will not be able to research and write
a detailed story of American continent of the 20th century. It
might be advisable in this case to narrow your topic to the
following: "The collapse of France and its influence on
political life of American continent in 1940".
However, one should not try to choose the topic that are highly
specialized or too technician or on which there is not enough
material. Once the topic of your term paper has been chosen, you
can start investigating and researching available material to
gain a term
paper idea on the subject. Start with one of the most
popular and one of the most convenient sources of the
information- online network. However, you should be very
cautious in using of different sites. Remember, that some of the
sites contain outdated or not credible information, and some of
them just advertise the product and do not provide any
information. You can use many online libraries or databases that
contain useful and credible sources. Domains that have such
endings as gov, edu, and org. should be considered more credible
ones; however you should treat information on other websites
cautiously. Do not forget that many tutors and some of the
educational institutions might not recognize web sites as the
credible and trustworthy source, so it you can turn to more
traditional ones -books and printed journals.Finally, whatever
sources you use, read guides on plagiarism before you start
using other sources for your term paper.