10,000 Ideas for Term Papers, Projects, Reports & Speeches (Arco 10,000 Ideas for Term Papers, Projects, Reports & Speeches) [Paperback]

Kathryn Lamm (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0028605608 | ISBN-13: 978-0028605609 | Publication Date: November 1995 | Edition: 4

Ideal for English, history, social studies or science courses, this guide covers 130 categories, with each topic keyed to level of difficulty, availability of research material, and possibilities for variation. This fourth edition offers the most extensive listing of original, up-to-the-minute research topics ever assembled in one volume.

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Amazon.com Review

Got a looming deadline and a bone-dry idea tank? Take a gander at Kathryn Lamm's compendium, which includes thousands of ideas from every discipline--English, history, social studies, journalism, art, and so forth. The range of topics is truly dizzying. And the ideas are ranked from average difficulty ("Swimming safety") to those requiring specialized knowledge ("Compare the Romanesque architecture of Ste. Madeline of Vezelay and St. Benoit-sur-Loire, France").

Product Details

• Paperback: 440 pages
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc; 4 edition (November 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0028605608
• ISBN-13: 978-0028605609
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,684,691 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Decent Springboard, October 22, 2004

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This review is from: 10,000 Ideas for Term Papers, Projects, Reports & Speeches (Arco 10,000 Ideas for Term Papers, Projects, Reports & Speeches) (Paperback)

This book and other like it have to be taken for what they are. Springboards to solid ideas. No, I have no desire to write about the pitfalls a vegetarianism, but it got me thinking about other lifestyles and habits we commonly see and what their pitfalls may be, whether political, financial, emotional or otherwise.

Many of the ideas are simply too broad to be used as they are. Instead, they are great to get you thinking in new directions and find some facet of a broad issue that intrigues you enough to write about it. I use the book to help me come up with ideas for articles. The final product is often far removed from the phrase that launched it.

3 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars these ideas are not at the college level!, January 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: 10,000 Ideas for Term Papers, Projects, Reports & Speeches (Arco 10,000 Ideas for Term Papers, Projects, Reports & Speeches) (Paperback)

at least not at the level of anyone at my college, anyway. i found this book to be of absolutely no use to me. maybe ill give it to my twelve year old sister. furthermore, i was very disappointed in the non-neutrality of the selection of topics. it is obviously that ms lamm is very conservative. the pitfalls of vegetarianism? the pros and cons of womens rights? what cave did she just crawl out of? i hope her eyes adjusted to the light before she wrote her second edition.