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Author Archives: Lorraine Savage
How to research ethics in communication (Hint: with integrity)
Social and ethical issues in journalism and other communications, such as public relations, business communications and information science, are good research paper topics for your ethics term paper. Here are some debates and issues of ethics in journalism you can …
Online courses: What college students should know
Sitting in classrooms for four years is no longer the only way to get a college education. Use of online courses has exploded in recent years. According to a report by the Babson Survey Research Group, Pearson Education and the …
New dictionary words as your research paper topic
In late spring, Merriam-Webster announced the new words it will add to the 2014 edition of its dictionary. New words are often influenced by technology, politics, economics and pop culture. College students, not only the English major, linguistics major or …
How the Facebook study became an ethics debate
Facebook’s recent study of the emotional behavior of some of its 1.3 billion users without their knowledge or consent has raised ethical concerns for academic research. When the study’s results were published in a science journal, people raised questions of …
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Will the student loan debt crisis ever improve?
The student debt crisis received a setback recently when the Bank on Student Loan Fairness Act sponsored by Senator Elizabeth Warren died in the Senate. It fell four votes shy of moving on for debate. According to the Project on …
Cheating in college and what’s being done about it
Cheating on college campuses has been a problem for many years. College students cheat on midterms, a final exam or term paper for many reasons, usually to improve their college GPA or to “get through” a class they find uninteresting. …
What are the issues each gender faces?
Gender identity, gender inequality and gender stereotypes are three good research paper topics for your sociology major or gender issues class. This article also has tips citing resources, searching databases and using effective keywords for finding information on gender issues. …
Learn about the Caribbean and West Indies
For your class in the history of the Caribbean and West Indies, consult academic journals, university databases and online for good research paper topics. The region had a rich history before the Europeans arrived and then struggled with disease and …
Orange Is the New Black: The real American prison
The new season of the women’s prison drama Orange Is the New Black was recently released from Netflix. The show is based on the memoir of the same name by Piper Kerman who spent fifteen months in federal prison on …
What you will learn as an international relations major
International relations is an exciting and multidisciplinary field of study. An international relations major—which includes foreign policy study, social science, ethics, psychology, foreign language and finance—equips students with the knowledge to view the world and people of various cultures with …