[school] last minute, as always
Mar. 11th, 2008 11:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thejunipertreeI have to write a term paper for my Social Problems class, due at the end of this semester (sometime in May). However, I need to present my outline for the paper in tonight's class. And I don't have a subject.
I've been wracking my brain for the past two weeks, trying to decide on a good subject to write the paper on and I keep coming up goose egged. My brain flits from one to another, turning it to examine from every angle, then the eventual discard. I'm just not sure. I can bang the outline out in less than five minutes once I have an idea of what I'm going to write about, so that's no problem.
It's Social Problems, so it's a fairly broad range to pick from (which I think is one of my issues with picking, there's too many options and my brain starts blinking). The last topic I had pondered was something along the lines of the beauty myth and its effects on women, but I can't nail it down into something resembling a good thesis statement. I also thought about writing on how abstinence-only education doesn't work, but after researching that for a bit, I couldn't find much in the way of resources. And as always, I also kicked around abortion, but that's a really broad area.
Any suggestions for a topic?
I've been wracking my brain for the past two weeks, trying to decide on a good subject to write the paper on and I keep coming up goose egged. My brain flits from one to another, turning it to examine from every angle, then the eventual discard. I'm just not sure. I can bang the outline out in less than five minutes once I have an idea of what I'm going to write about, so that's no problem.
It's Social Problems, so it's a fairly broad range to pick from (which I think is one of my issues with picking, there's too many options and my brain starts blinking). The last topic I had pondered was something along the lines of the beauty myth and its effects on women, but I can't nail it down into something resembling a good thesis statement. I also thought about writing on how abstinence-only education doesn't work, but after researching that for a bit, I couldn't find much in the way of resources. And as always, I also kicked around abortion, but that's a really broad area.
Any suggestions for a topic?
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Date: 2008-03-11 05:41 pm (UTC)I think that the abstinence-only education paper could be promising. yes, it would probably be hard to find a book on the abstinence-only curriculum, but you could probably find articles and interviews on it. You would probably be more successful in finding a book on planned parenthood and full-spectrum curriculum. I'm sure that there are sociological journal articles on education and availability of birth control and you might be able to draw some statistical conclusions that way...