I need a topic for a college level English Lit research paper. Please help.?
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pick your favorite one and write about how symbolism played a role in the novel, or break down each character in the novel and give each a thorough analysis....ask your teacher for help choosing a topic
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Here are a few topics that you may want to consider, I don't know what type of literature you're studying nor do I know what books you've read but here are a few:\n\n1. Homer's the Iliad- maybe focus on Achilles or Hector as a tragic hero\n\n2. The Aeneid- focus on whether Aeneas betrays Dido\n If you have read African American literature such as The Color Purple or Their Eyes Were Watching God you can focus on how the main characters find themselves. Good Luck!!!
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google.com  \ndo a search for the subject of your paper
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I am a HS English teacher. This year my students had to do debateable topics on their research papers. Here are some of the topics my students did that I enjoyed most:\n1. Is surrogate parenting a good idea?\n2. Is there a truly such a thing as Christian "Rock"\n3.  Illegal immigration, do we send them back?\n4. Why are we in Iraq?\n5.  Child abuse or Biblical "Spare the Rod"\n6.  Is Cosmetic Surgery a Sin?\n7. Overseas Adoptions, should we stay in America for our  Babies?\n8.  Interracial Dating, who does it benefit?\n9. Cloning, How many more of YOU can we stand?\nJust ideas. Hope they help!
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good links are\nhttp://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/oal/oaltoc.htm\nKey Sites on American Literature:\n\nSTART HERE.  This is a tremendous collection of links! Surf from one to the next.\n\nhttp://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/oal/amlitweb.htm#general\n\nAmerican Studies : North American liter</span><span class="Normal--Char" style=" font-weight: bold; ">ature \nhttp://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/headlist.php?sub=american&code=FC.654\n\nThe Cambridge History of English and American Literature  \n    An encyclopedia in 18 volumes. Vol. 15. Colonial and Revolutionary Literature. \n\n    From Project Bartleby.\n\nhttp://bartleby.com/225/index.html\n\nFire and Ice; Puritan and Reformed Writings \n    Biography, historical inforamtion, etexts\n\nhttp://www.puritansermons.com/\n\nThe Seventeenth Century: Echoes of the Renaissance and Reformation \n    Lecture notes from Michael S. Seiferth\n\nhttp://lonestar.texas.net/~mseifert/amlit1.html\n\nHumbul Humanities Hub  \n    Searchable index to humanities materials; from UK\n\nhttp://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/headlist.php?sub=american&code=FC.654\n\nAmericanLiterary Movements  \n    Defines literary terms, timeline, biography and links for authors. \n\n    From Donna Campbell\n\nhttp://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/litfram.html\n\nPAL: Perspectives in American Literature \n    Covers major movements in American literature. Excellent site\n\nhttp://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/table.html\n\nThe American Renaissance and Transcendentalism  \n    From PBS. I Hear America Singing\n\nhttp://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/icon/transcend.html\n\nModern American Literature  \n    Early 20th century; by Mary Klages, University of Colorado, Boulder\n\nhttp://www.colorado.edu/English/amlit/mod.html\n\nNaturalism in American Literature  \nDiscussion, selected authors, bibliographies from Donna M. Campbell, \n\nGonzaga University\n\nhttp://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl413/natural.htm\n\nPAL: Late Nineteenth Century Naturalism  \n    From Perspectives in American Literature\n\nhttp://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap6/6intro.html\n\nMy Virtual Encyclopedia; Online Reference Desk \n    Large number of literature links.\n\nhttp://www.refdesk.com/books.html#top\n\nOnline Texts:  (Many older books are now available on the internet)\n\nAMERICAN LITERARY CLASSICS \nComplete texts of over twenty-five American literary classics\n\nhttp://www.americanliterature.com/ARCHIVES/ARCHIVES.HTML\n\nLibrary of Congress Electronic Texts \nhttp://rs6.loc.gov/amhome.html\n\nAfrican American Writers : Onli</span><span class="Normal--Char" style=" font-weight: bold; ">ne E-texts \nhttp://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/afroonline.htm\n\nAmerican and English Literature \nhttp://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/online.htm\n\nUniversity of Virginia online texts \nEXCELLENT SITE!\n\nhttp://etext.lib.virginia.edu/
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Try to find some sort of controversial topic, this way, you will be able to find lots of info. But try to avoid overused topics; abortion, capital punishment, etc. Good topics (that do need to be narrowed) might be UFOs, conspiracy theories, free speech(I did one on protests and why they should be regulated). But most importantly, pick something of interest to you. For example, I know someone that likes fantasy books, so she wrote about witchcraft references in Harry Potter.\nYou can get a lot of GOOD info on civil liberties from things like Supreme Court decisions.
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try cliffsnotes.com\nthey have alot of info about stuff like that\nDid you not read for your class or something? lol
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look on a database and go to a library. You can find research that will help you there look under literary databases.
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good luck....\n\nhttp://www.sparknotes.com/lit/greatex/\n\nNext time read the book....it is pretty good.
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Is this your own assignment?  What I would do first is see if there is any certain topic you have to find for class.  Let's use English as our subject.  So, find a book that you like and find a long paragraph!  The main idea is the main point that the author is trying to get across.  This is usually in the first or the last sentence.  Then the supporting details are the ones that give more meaning to the main idea.  \n\nAn exmaple:  A main idea would be, "Tom Thumb is a small man."  and your supporting details would be, "He is so small that he is only the size of someone's thumb.  He got lost in my pocket once!  A cat mistook him for a mouse!"\n\nAfter you read the supporting details, you understand exactly how small Tom is.  The next paragraph might have the main idea about how Tom is funny.  The next might be about how Tom eats a lot of food.\n\nThe other post is a good way of showing how when you write an essay or a book that all the main ideas get put together to form one big idea.  All of my examples put together could be an essay with the main idea, or subject, about, "The Man Called Tom Thumb."\n\nHope this illustrates your questtion!  Good luck with main ideas... you are on your way to being a great writer!
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One way to get many suggestions is to go to Collegeboard.com (AP Central) and look at AP English Language and Composition.  The class is focused on the teaching of writing and many educators contribute to the AP Central web site.  If you are a teacher, you can sign up (free) for an account that will give you access to all of the information.\nIf you wish to use a text not tied to English literature, The Brief Bedford Reader (Bedford St. Martins pub.) contains many prose, non-fiction essays as examples and good chapter discussions of 8-10 types of essays as well as student-written models.  I've used this text in both high schools and English 1A (college).  It's quite effective.\nFinally, the Online Writing Lab at Purdue.edu has wonderful resources both in style and mechanics.
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Actually in America colleges teach "British Literature."  We just clump all writing from Great Britain (and sometimes from British author's who live in other parts of the world) into a category and study the author's by time period.\nNow what is your question?  Do you want a suggested topic?  An outline on a set topic?  Either way you'll need to give more info and tell which period of Brit. Lit. you are studying.
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probably..try a google search.. what kinds of topics were you looking for..,might make it easier to find.\n\n.\n\n\n\nCheck out my blog please. Its located at;\n\nhttp://shanegfowler.wordpress.com
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Well, you were a bit vague on the area of English this is for and what grade, but I did an English research paper on the evolution of horror stories and it was a success.  If you wanted something more physical to research, you may try the topic "Comic Books: Evolution of an Art Form" where you compare and contrast old comics with today's.\n\nGood luck
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is it a writing class or an english class?\n\nif its english you probably want to stick with literature- compare two characters in the same book or two different books\n\nif its a writing class and the sky is the limit, then Id look at your interests- if you like animals, you could have a thesis around how having pets are beneficial to your health, if you are interested in history, you could have a thesis like "X event changed the world for the better/worse"\n\nPlay to your interests- if youre not interested in writing your paper, chances are your teacher wont be interested in reading it- it really makes a difference
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You need to narrow this down. What age/grade are you? What have you been reading for class?\nShakespeare?\n20th Century Plays?\nAmerican authors?\n\nNarrow it down some and you'll get better answers.
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Do an essay on how lanaguage is ever changing and how our lives (cultural, techonological) etc has affected this. For example, 20, or even 10 years ago, did anyone know what LOL meant?