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Term Paper Topic Generator
Instructions for use: Choose one element from Column One, one from Column Two, 
one from Column Three and as many as you can from Column Four
1. Broad Subject
(Area of interest)		 2. Specific Instance
(Particular example)		 3. Reasoning
(Asking "why"?)		 4. Limits
(What will NOT be included)
  • A Social Organization
  • A Social Issue (e.g., housing, safety)
  • Government 
  • Government Policy (choose one)
  • Aboriginal Issues (choose one)
  • Cultural Issues (choose one)
  • Land Claims
  • Self-Government
  • Justice
  • Crime
  • An Education Issue
  • A Language Issue 
  • A Gender Issue
  • Economic Development
  • Work
  • Leisure
  • Recreation
  • Arts
  • Economics
  • Business (a particular business or a business practice)
  • Architecture
  • Settlement(s) (Teslin, Atlin, Whitehorse, Deep Creek, etc.)
  • Transportation
  • Technology
  • A Conflict
  • A Partnership
  • Research
  • or any other broad subject that interests you
  • historical event
  • activities of a particular person
  • a northern first
  • an interesting idea
  • a process
  • a special interest group
  • a tradition
  • a problem
  • an interesting change
  • one or two interesting statistic(s)
  • an interesting business
  • new rules
  • new ways of doing things
  • a community project
  • a conflict
  • a partnership
  • a theory
  • a test
  • a class of activities
  • a game
  • an accident
  • or any other single event, idea, activity or phenomenon that interests you
  • explained by a theory
  • caused by
  • similar to
  • example of
  • evidence of
  • effect of
  • indication or sign of
  • influenced by
  • result of
  • reaction to
  • different from
  • refuted by
  • place (be as specific as possible; focus on a community if you can, the territory if you have to, the region if need be, and the country as a last resort)
  • time (make the period as short as possible)
  • people involved (make the group of "actors" as small or specific as possible)
  • organizations involved -- as sources or as "actors" (make the number as small as possible)
  • what is significant (focus as tightly as possible)
  • what is important (focus as tightly as possible)