The Rules Title Page, Fonts, Page format, Images Bibliographies, Footnotes and Other Necessities 5. Plagiarism Definition and Responsibilities 6. The professor of your course has taken great pains to produce and plan a course from which they hope you will take something worthwhile. The requirement of a paper or essay should follow the specific parameters laid out by the professor of the course. The professor will not give extra marks for longer essays.
All essay topics are subject to the professor's approval.
Now that we have a general topic, length and due date for the paper, we can look at the actual make-up of an essay. Picking a topic Name a subject you'd like to write about. Get it approved by the professor. If you find that there isn't much written on the topic you have chosen then starting early will give you the time needed to select another topic if necessary. Start with the books on your bibliography from your professor.