Don't know what to write about (Last minute)

You have been discussing the matter in question in the class or on the seminar. There is one subject everyone has to pick something interesting from and turn into a topic.

Usually, what is expected from you is to defend a viewpoint of your own in your paper, but you first need to choose what the topic will be. Regarding the questions the teacher or professor has been most interested in, you can make you own topic, following your preferences as well.

The title of the paper, your topic can also be the name of your point, like for example:

• Teacher's question: What caused the fall of the Roman Empire?
• Your topic and viewpoint: Loss of traditional values, Lost Roman Empire

• Don't try to sound too smart
• Use only the words whose meaning you are sure about
• Be straightforward, with easy-to-follow arguments
• Do not pile up the connectors
• Include as many active verbs and simple subjects
• Your argument doesn's have to be complicated to be good
• Pull the right information from your mind and state it precisely
• Take whatever piece of information on the subject is exchanged during the lesson and use it in your paper

You should never plagiarize! However, you are free to use other people's arguments to support your own.

The only thing you should always think of is to credit all of them whose words you borrowed.

With your own point, you just need to find anything remotely relating to it.

Those can be quotes, whole passages, or even expressions. Even if a certain passage only dimly supports your argument, use it. Just always explain how the two are connected and in what way they relate to each other, and then put the quoted sentence in the right context.

"One man's trash, is another man's treasure."

Why we should never look down on people who are digging through the garbage is because they are putting an effort in front an putting their dignity aside to feed themselves. Much of the trash is still edible and usable. People who are to feel embarrassed are the ones throwing things so nonchalantly, without even considering the value it has for the ones who are poor. We should always think beforehand and do everything we can to help the starving and the poor, like packing the unfinihsed and still edible food in the plastic bags and hanging them on the side of the container.

• 1st part: Opening paragraph with your thesis statement + setup (or the explanation of the thesis where "you say what you want to say")

• 2nd part: Supporting the claims you made in the first paragraph, or simply explaining them one by one ("say it")

• 3r part: A wrap-up paragraph is a summary of what you've said in the 2nd part, and which should end with your thesis statement again. A good tip is to start it with a connector "therefore". This actually "says what you have already said before".