need help with a research/debate paper topic

[FreakBaller12]

You need to be cautious about this advice. Especially if you your school forces you to submit via turnitin.com or a similar service and your prof has a policy about re-using work. Here at Northeastern, we are forced to use turnitin.com for all submissions. It checks against our old papers, papers submitted by people at our school, and the entire turnitin.com com database. Using old work without prior consent of the prof constitutes academic dishonesty here. People get caught on using old work and plagiarism pretty regularly.

That said, if you have the luxury of the ability to use old work, then it might be in your best interest to do so.

yea it's not going to work, although I'm not using turnitin for this class. Our prof. told us since this project is set up a special way he'll be able to tell that we used an old paper.
I have to bring atleast 2 ideas into class so I think I'm going with:
Alternative Fuel Sources
How to make paintball mainstream
How to get the NY Yankees to win a WS

[grEnAlEins]

How to get the NY Yankees to win a WS

Good luck.

[Lohman446]

You need to be cautious about this advice. Especially if you your school forces you to submit via turnitin.com or a similar service and your prof has a policy about re-using work. Here at Northeastern, we are forced to use turnitin.com for all submissions. It checks against our old papers, papers submitted by people at our school, and the entire turnitin.com com database. Using old work without prior consent of the prof constitutes academic dishonesty here. People get caught on using old work and plagiarism pretty regularly.

That said, if you have the luxury of the ability to use old work, then it might be in your best interest to do so.

Ouch, thats rough.

Even though I never reused old work the vast majority of my work was centered around a few subjects, and I could weave these subjects into most any discussion.... so a lot of my papers used a lot of the same research / similiar theories / etc.

[grEnAlEins]

Ouch, thats rough.

Even though I never reused old work the vast majority of my work was centered around a few subjects, and I could weave these subjects into most any discussion.... so a lot of my papers used a lot of the same research / similiar theories / etc.

It isn't so bad. Most of my stuff will be about a similar topic within my field. I just cannot pull pieces/parts from old work. Much of my stuff to come will be based on the same data/theories/studies and be similar. That comes with the territory of research in a specific topic.

[FreakBaller12]

It isn't so bad. Most of my stuff will be about a similar topic within my field. I just cannot pull pieces/parts from old work. Much of my stuff to come will be based on the same data/theories/studies and be similar. That comes with the territory of research in a specific topic.

and isn't that what college is all about?
/warm fuzzy feeling
//warm 100k loan
///where's the beer?

[grEnAlEins]

and isn't that what college is all about?
/warm fuzzy feeling
//warm 100k loan
///where's the beer?

God I hope not, for your sake. I never had to do specific research in undergrad, at least not to the degree that I will over the next 18 months... I sincerely hope that you do not have to in your undergraduate studies This is primarily because it looks to be a royal PITA.

[FreakBaller12]

God I hope not, for your sake. I never had to do specific research in undergrad, at least not to the degree that I will over the next 18 months... I sincerely hope that you do not have to in your undergraduate studies This is primarily because it looks to be a royal PITA.

oh noes, planning to go to grad school. Please don't rain on my parade...Although I dont want to admit that grad school will be horribley painful

[lazebum]

DO your papaer on the decline of man due to the bottom 10% of the populatation creating 40%of the population and the top 10% creating less than 5% and how that will lead to the rise in stupidity in the human race!

[Lohman446]

DO your papaer on the decline of man due to the bottom 10% of the populatation creating 40%of the population and the top 10% creating less than 5% and how that will lead to the rise in stupidity in the human race!

What set of quantitative values are you using to define who is the top 10% and who is the bottom?

[BobTheCow]

What set of quantitative values are you using to define who is the top 10% and who is the bottom?

Dude, you can't question a guy with a name like lazebum, he is clearly the supreme ruler of people-ranking.

[grEnAlEins]

oh noes, planning to go to grad school. Please don't rain on my parade...Although I dont want to admit that grad school will be horribley painful

Nah, it isn't so bad so long as you hold a genuine interest in what you are doing. Just make sure you like your field before you pursue an advanced degree in it.

[grEnAlEins]

What set of quantitative values are you using to define who is the top 10% and who is the bottom?

The bottom 10% of people are obviously the shortest 10%, as they are indeed below the other 90%

[lazebum]

sEE AlIENS geTS iTS

[Lohman446]

Nice dodge. Seriously, I'd like to see how defensible your "intellectual" statement of fact is. What criteria are you using?

[BobTheCow]

sEE AlIENS geTS iTS

Are you trolling yourself? What's happening here?