Here are the instructions she received from her prof: Requirements: 1) Approx 1500 words 2) Creative opening 3)Thought provoking, insightful thesis 4)Coherent supportive arguments (facts, details, statistics, expert testimonies) 5)Rigorous research a) Six academic or scholarly journal articles b) Two academic monographs c)One newspaper/ newsmagazine article d)one internet source -MUST HAVE at least 10 OR FAIL! -OK to substitute any one of the above sources with questionnaires (min of 30) or an in-depth interview of an expert (min of one hour) 6)Judicious use of quotes w/ at least 1 block quote of >40 words 7)Ample APA citations 8) Unique conclusions 9) APA references The subject of paper is her choice, and she said she doesn''t really care what it''s on. Some ideas we came up with are a paper about Guillian-Barre syndrome (she had it when she was 2 yr old and spent >6months in hospital, 3 of which were on ventilator in PICU). Another idea was something medical (she''s a AS nursing student but this paper is for Eng. 2) such as "Why are kids getting so obese-- video games vs good old playing and running outside with friends" or something on the Increase in childhood diabetes.