Paper Writing

**James MacMillan** · 21st November 07, 01:54 AM

Heck, if you are only talking about 12 pages, you could just do a short paper on searching out your roots. Do it yourself, and keep notes, and the paper will pretty much write itself.

**berserkbishop** · 21st November 07, 03:05 AM

Originally Posted by James MacMillan

Heck, if you are only talking about 12 pages, you could just do a short paper on searching out your roots. Do it yourself, and keep notes, and the paper will pretty much write itself.

The idea did cross my mind but she is looking for a "research" paper. Yes, it would take research to search out my roots, but thats not what college professors are looking for in a "research" paper. Doesnt make a lot of sense but there is a formatting to it. . . thesis, thesis tie ins, APA formatting with well documents sources and all that which in my opinion a paper searching out my roots will not satisfy. Another thing is time. I imagine that finding 12 pages worth of my roots will take considerable time, at least what I have knowledge of now off the top of my head took forever to track down. I have only about 2 weeks. . . I procrastinate like none other. Thanks for the suggestion though.

Bishop

**macwilkin** · 21st November 07, 04:23 AM

Stop by the library today, or after the break. We have several books in the collection on Scotland, and you can always order more from other college/university libraries in the state via the MOBIUS system.

Sorry, gents, for talking shop in the mess.

Cheers

Todd

creativeaccents · 21st November 07, 04:35 AM

One potential topic that very few people are awre of, but one with plenty of easy to reach reference material is the amount of interaction between the Scots and the American Indian. Here's a bit of a teaser http://www.newworldcelts.org/celtic_indians.htm

Many of the Scots clearly identified with the Indians of all tribes, some intermarried freely and served as Chiefs and on tribal councils.

**macwilkin** · 21st November 07, 04:43 AM

Originally Posted by creativeaccents

One potential topic that very few people are awre of, but one with plenty of easy to reach reference material is the amount of interaction between the Scots and the American Indian. Here's a bit of a teaser http://www.newworldcelts.org/celtic_indians.htm

Many of the Scots clearly identified with the Indians of all tribes, some intermarried freely and served as Chiefs and on tribal councils.

We have in our library the book Scots in the North American West 1790-1917 which devotes a whole chapter to the relationship between the Scots and the First Nations:

http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...an_indians.htm

I can think of several other titles off the top of my head that are available in the MO state library system on this subject.

T,