Paper Writing

[Riverkilt]

How many businesses in Missouri have a Scottish or Celtic name or theme and what type of business they are....pubs, bars, restaurants, retail Scottish goods, kilt outfit rental. Then check their advertising or talk to their owner as to how/why they got into the business and chose a Scottish theme. Maybe a car dealer with a Scottish name and a tartan theme playing on the old cliche' of Scot thriftyness.

Or Scots who helped pioneer early Missouri. Early leaders in Missouri with Scot heritage or born in Scotland.

No clue what's in Missouri, but gotta be some things. 12 pages isn't much APA style.

Ron

[James MacMillan]

I still hold to my original idea.

"question" Is it possible to discover who in my familial background first wore a kilt?"

This opens so many avenues to tie in, it should write itself, and when you are done, you will have learned something, not just done a paper. I hold three degrees and I know what I am talking about.

Areas of tie-in: Kilt, Geneology, History, Fashion, Conflict, Familial divergence, Imigration, etc etc.

Remember, we are still only talking 12 pages!

[macwilkin]

I still hold to my original idea.

"question" Is it possible to discover who in my familial background first wore a kilt?"

This opens so many avenues to tie in, it should write itself, and when you are done, you will have learned something, not just done a paper. I hold three degrees and I know what I am talking about.

Areas of tie-in: Kilt, Geneology, History, Fashion, Conflict, Familial divergence, Imigration, etc etc.

Remember, we are still only talking 12 pages!

Hmmm...If it were me teaching the class, I might accept this proposal for some sort of speech, but given the amount of genealogical research alone, which does take some time to gather sources & information, I would probably suggest to the student to research something more "concrete" in terms of academic resources.

As you say, it is a 12-page paper for a English Comp II class. If anything, this topic is probably too broad for the class.

T.