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Hot Research Paper Ideas For Summer Time
Its a common belief that summer is the right time just for swimming in a warm blue see, tanning under the hot blazing sun, backpacking, camping, flying a kite, building a sandcastle in other words, anything that does not require particular mind work.
But you are greatly deluded if you are following the crowd. Summer is not for lazybones and coach potatoes. It might be a hot time for racking your brain a bit over research papers!
It is not a joke. You are missing a lot if your summer vacation doesnt imply papers and textbooks. Writing a research paper in summer can turn out to be more fun and rewarding than ever.
So what can be done in summer for the sake of future research papers?
You can accomplish the first and the most important stage in your preparations to writing a research paper, namely think of its topic and do the preliminary search of information. This work does not require strenuous work and still helps greatly in the future.
Getting down to choosing a research paper topic you should be selective and mindful of several principles.
The first criteria for choosing a successful and attention grabbing topic is to pick the one that is to your liking. If you do not feel like writing a research paper on Recent Legal History of the Death Penalty, leave it in peace and move forward to look for a research paper topic you will find thrilling and exciting.
Secondly, choose a topic that will be manageable for your level. You are likely to fail if your research paper topic is too technical, learned, or specialized, since research papers of this kind have only a very narrow range of source materials available in libraries. Therefore, do not even try to pull down monuments and pick the research paper topic with plenty of information on its account.
It is also important that your research paper topic is not too broad and vague. Narrow it down to specifics. For example, American Folk Songs could be narrowed down to The English Origin of American Folk Songs. It is vital, since broad research paper topics are boring for the reader and difficult to research for the author.
To avoid any further pitfalls, select more than one research paper topic from the start. Find three or four topics that interest you, and then conduct a preliminary search of each topic. Determine which of the research paper ideas can be supported with plenty of published material. This way, you will be able to select a final topic that is both interesting and feasible.
Your next step to writing a research paper in summer is to do a preliminary search on the research paper topic. And Internet your favorite pastime of all seasons is all that is needed, since it is full of exciting research paper ideas and tips for better writing.
You do not have to sit in front of the monitor for hours. Simply note the sites that might interest you, find the ones you will need to use later, like those for formatting or with research paper examples. But be careful as anyone can post information on the Internet and anyone can change what is up there, bringing up questions of authority and validity.
And, of course, you can pay a random visit to the cradle of knowledge a library. It is up to you, but you should bear in mind that such a visit will pay off. Not only the library is not overcrowded and you can feel yourself at home, but also the librarians are not that tired of the visitors and will readily help you with your research paper.
It is better to go to the library by the end of summer, when you have a clear research paper topic and the libraries are starting to open after the refurbishment period.
Check out the following print materials there:
almanacs, atlases, catalogues;
encyclopaedias and dictionaries;
government publications, guides, reports;
magazines, newspapers;
vertical files;
yellow pages.
The information you will find in a library must be enough for your research paper topic. If not, turn to your friends and parents help. They will not be indifferent to your research and will readily help with whatever you need.
That would do for your summer vacation. You are not asked to strain yourself and think solely of your research paper. But it would be great to take the most out of your summer holidays, when your mind is rested. You will be amazed to find how many research paper ideas are wandering in your head. Simply seize the moment, when some brilliant idea comes to your mind, put it down and use it when the right time comes.
BONUS : How A City Can Be A Character In Your Novel
Can a city be a character in a book? Many years ago, in a writing class, I was told that I should try to make the setting, which was Toronto, my city of birth, a character in my book, Conduct in Question. I have puzzled over this piece of advice for many years and only now think I may have an answer as to its meaning.
Heres another question. Can the city youve lived in all your life be a character or does intimacy somehow disqualify it? I have often longed to see Toronto with the eyes of a visitor but unfortunately, that is surprisingly hard to do.
I was reading Alain De Bottons delightful book, The Art of Travel. He maintains that when we travel, we adopt, if we are lucky, a travelers receptive mind-set. Somehow, we North Americans walking around Paris or Buenos Aires are much more open to what we see than if we were at home. We ask questions. We see these places with fresh eyes and a sense of wonder. However, at home, says De Botton, we have become so habituated to our surroundings that we scarcely notice them.
So, how can a writer hope to make his own hometown an effective setting, (given his habituation) much less an interesting character? After all, if we are blind to our everyday surroundings, can we ever hope to see them with fresh eyes?
Perhaps the answer lies in the distinction between intimacy and familiarity. Intimacy with a lover suggests deep, unconscious involvement. Familiarity perhaps connotes staying on the surface with a case of borderline boredom. And so, intimacy with ones home may suggest deep knowledge, not boredom.
I found a clue in reading Jan Morris, one of the worlds finest and most experienced travel writers. She gave Torontonians a snapshot of their city in the early 1980s. Here are some of the descriptive words she used. The people appeared calm, dispassionate, polite, determined, joyless, resigned and reticent. Wow! Who would want to visit us? Furthermore, the city is conducive to self-doubt and introspection. This does not sound like a great party place!
But shes right, at least in part. Torontonians, on the surface, are notoriously reserved and polite to the extent of appearing cold, unfriendly and formal. But, as one who has lived a lifetime here, Id argue that that is only part of the story.
If youve ever visited Toronto, you will know a bit about its geography. It sits on a huge body of water (Lake Ontario) and is riddled with ravines. These are gorgeous, deep cut chasms left in their state of nature. If you are walking along St Clair Avenue, in the middle of traffic, shops, offices and cafes, you could turn down a path at a bridge and find yourself in an entirely different world. Trees, bushes, shrubs, all manner of plant life await you along with the occasional skunk or fox. And it is amazingly quiet. The rumblings of traffic grow distant and at last you hear the songbirds. Its a bit like achieving a different state of consciousness.
I love this image. Within a very short distance of the sleek, glistening towers of banks and businesses, the snarl of traffic, all creating an extraordinarily highly, polished surface, nature runs riot.
Doesnt that make you think of what people are like? Each day, we dress up, putting on our public mask. And we submerge, for a time, all the mutinous rumblings of our inner selves. How like Toronto is to its people!
Last year, Conduct in Question (the first in the Osgoode Trilogy) was published. Harry Jenkins is the protagonist lawyer practicing in Toronto. On reflection, I have to admit that Harry is a lot like the city Ive just been describing. At the beginning of Conduct in Question he is trapped in a creaky, old law firm under his senior partners thumb and in a dead marriage of twenty years. But mutinous rumblings lie within Harry. Im in my late forties. Am I running out of time? Can I make more money? How much money is enough?
And, what do you know? Harry is reserved, reticent, introspective and subject to self-doubt. On the polished surface of life, things arent so bad, but something is missing. It takes murder and fraud (catapulted down into the wilds of the ravines) to burst open his life and get him really living again. In the second novel of the trilogy, Final Paradox, I got very interested in the role masks play in the lives of people. Harry is once again caught up in murder and fraud and this time the question is can love and forgiveness be found amid fraud and deceit? And so, (metaphorically speaking) Harry is thrust down into the ravines of his psyche to come up with the answers.
So, yes, I think I understand how a city (the setting) can become a character and also influence the other characters and themes in a novel. Ive been greatly affected by the central image of Toronto with its polished, sophisticated surface contrasted with what lurks under the bridges. That image is what lies under the Osgoode Trilogy.
Can a city be a character in a book? Many years ago, in a writing class, I was told that I should try to make the setting, which was Toronto, my city of birth, a character in my book, Conduct in Question. I have puzzled over this piece of advice for many years and only now think I may have an answer as to its meaning.
Heres another question. Can the city youve lived in all your life be a character or does intimacy somehow disqualify it? I have often longed to see Toronto with the eyes of a visitor but unfortunately, that is surprisingly hard to do.
I was reading Alain De Bottons delightful book, The Art of Travel. He maintains that when we travel, we adopt, if we are lucky, a travelers receptive mind-set. Somehow, we North Americans walking around Paris or Buenos Aires are much more open to what we see than if we were at home. We ask questions. We see these places with fresh eyes and a sense of wonder. However, at home, says De Botton, we have become so habituated to our surroundings that we scarcely notice them.
So, how can a writer hope to make his own hometown an effective setting, (given his habituation) much less an interesting character? After all, if we are blind to our everyday surroundings, can we ever hope to see them with fresh eyes?
Perhaps the answer lies in the distinction between intimacy and familiarity. Intimacy with a lover suggests deep, unconscious involvement. Familiarity perhaps connotes staying on the surface with a case of borderline boredom. And so, intimacy with ones home may suggest deep knowledge, not boredom.
I found a clue in reading Jan Morris, one of the worlds finest and most experienced travel writers. She gave Torontonians a snapshot of their city in the early 1980s. Here are some of the descriptive words she used. The people appeared calm, dispassionate, polite, determined, joyless, resigned and reticent. Wow! Who would want to visit us? Furthermore, the city is conducive to self-doubt and introspection. This does not sound like a great party place!
But shes right, at least in part. Torontonians, on the surface, are notoriously reserved and polite to the extent of appearing cold, unfriendly and formal. But, as one who has lived a lifetime here, Id argue that that is only part of the story.
If youve ever visited Toronto, you will know a bit about its geography. It sits on a huge body of water (Lake Ontario) and is riddled with ravines. These are gorgeous, deep cut chasms left in their state of nature. If you are walking along St Clair Avenue, in the middle of traffic, shops, offices and cafes, you could turn down a path at a bridge and find yourself in an entirely different world. Trees, bushes, shrubs, all manner of plant life await you along with the occasional skunk or fox. And it is amazingly quiet. The rumblings of traffic grow distant and at last you hear the songbirds. Its a bit like achieving a different state of consciousness.
I love this image. Within a very short distance of the sleek, glistening towers of banks and businesses, the snarl of traffic, all creating an extraordinarily highly, polished surface, nature runs riot.
Doesnt that make you think of what people are like? Each day, we dress up, putting on our public mask. And we submerge, for a time, all the mutinous rumblings of our inner selves. How like Toronto is to its people!
Last year, Conduct in Question (the first in the Osgoode Trilogy) was published. Harry Jenkins is the protagonist lawyer practicing in Toronto. On reflection, I have to admit that Harry is a lot like the city Ive just been describing. At the beginning of Conduct in Question he is trapped in a creaky, old law firm under his senior partners thumb and in a dead marriage of twenty years. But mutinous rumblings lie within Harry. Im in my late forties. Am I running out of time? Can I make more money? How much money is enough?
And, what do you know? Harry is reserved, reticent, introspective and subject to self-doubt. On the polished surface of life, things arent so bad, but something is missing. It takes murder and fraud (catapulted down into the wilds of the ravines) to burst open his life and get him really living again. In the second novel of the trilogy, Final Paradox, I got very interested in the role masks play in the lives of people. Harry is once again caught up in murder and fraud and this time the question is can love and forgiveness be found amid fraud and deceit? And so, (metaphorically speaking) Harry is thrust down into the ravines of his psyche to come up with the answers.
So, yes, I think I understand how a city (the setting) can become a character and also influence the other characters and themes in a novel. Ive been greatly affected by the central image of Toronto with its polished, sophisticated surface contrasted with what lurks under the bridges. That image is what lies under the Osgoode Trilogy.
