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Coming Up With Interesting Roman Empire Term Paper Topics

It is always difficult to come up with a topic for your term paper. Even if you have the general topic of Roman Empire, there are just so many directions that you can go with that general topic, that it's just easier to say "write my dissertation" on the web. You can’t choose to just write a paper discussing the Roman Empire as a whole. You have to narrow that paper down and discuss one aspect of the topic. Deciding on the direction that you want to go for the paper is not always an easy task. Here are some great ways to come up with an interesting topic to write about.

Brainstorming

One of the best ways to decide on a topic is to use some brainstorming methods. There are quite a few to choose from but the most effective ones are listed below.

• Free writing: when using this method, you would simply start writing down any ideas that you can think of. That means that you would grab a sheet of paper and write the words “Roman Empire” at the top. Then all over the paper, not so much in a list format, write anything that comes to your head when you think about that term.
• Web mapping: Another method that you can use is web mapping. You would get a sheet of paper and write that term in the middle of the paper circled. Draw a few lines coming from that circle and write down a few subtopics. Then circle your sub topics and write a few lines off of each one and write down a few subtopics of your subtopics.

Text book search

You can also search through your text book to find a few good examples. You can check the index in the back of the book and the table of contents to get some general ideas. If you text book is not just on the Roman Empire, then search the chapter for ideas. You can find a lot of good ideas for papers in the sections that are not part of the text. These are additional sections that you may have just skipped right over when you were reading the text. They are usually in a different color.

Choosing a topic is one of the most important parts. Make sure that you choose something that you are interested in learning more about so that you will enjoy the assignment a little more.