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Informative Research Essay -
Topic Ideas:
(You do NOT have to choose one of the topics, they are just ideas that have been chosen in the past to help get you thinking)
• A career you’re interested in pursuing
• Insomnia
• Social media addiction
• Music therapy used to cure Alzheimer’s
• “How to” create a particular project
• Starting a particular business
• Laughter (or other types of) therapy
• Preventing water pollution
• Vaccinations in children
• Pancreatic (and other types of) cancer
• Future of hybrid vehicles
• Concussions in the NFL
• Eating "clean"
• Treatments for a particular mental illness
Writing Lab Component:
If you have not yet attended a Writing Lab visit, you should ensure that you do that sometime during this research essay unit- it will be extremely helpful and is the last chance to earn extra credit. All Writing Lab visits must be completed before the last class day of the semester (December 10). It is worth 10 extra credit points. Schedule your appointment(s) now! *NOTE: unless you are an expert in APA citation, you should attend at least one Writing Lab appointment during the drafting of this essay; often students make more than one appointment for this essay.
Essays will be submitted through Turnitin.com; plagiary, use of AI generators, Chat GPT, or any work not properly written by the student and information cited correctly will result in failure of the essay and will be reported to LMC for further action.
