The Term Paper Assignment One of the most important requirements of the Social Science 180 course is a four to five page research paper. The topic you choose must originate from an issue, an event, a person, or a problem discussed in one of the articles included in the course syllabus. This means that you must review the syllabus carefully in the first week and pick a core article that interests you.
Good research is like following a chain from one source to another.
The core article from the textbook is the first link in your research chain. The next link will be an article in the notes, suggested readings, or bibliography of that core article. The bibliography or notes of that second article will lead you to others, of which you will choose another. This linking process will give you at least three sources, the core article and two links. You may also refer to other materials in the textbook, but these do not count as outside sources.