Students taking a Journalism or a Writing Class are frequently assigned to write research papers on controversial topics. Actually, it is rather an interesting and exciting task, and if you understand the essence of writing your research paper on a controversial topic, you will certainly fall over it. We will try to help you by providing the ways of choosing controversial research paper topics.

• Look through the past and current newspapers, magazines, websites, blogs, books, etc. Make a list of topics you find rather controversial and that can be chosen for your good research paper;
• Choose one of the topics that you consider to be worth investigating, that might become a good controversial research paper topic;
• Investigate the background of the topic chosen. Use the newspapers, magazines and books, websites, and everything that might help you find materials on your controversial research paper topic. If an incident took place in the local area where you live, you can interview people involved into it;
• Once you have clearly understood what actually has happened and what was the matter - take notes. We advise that you should use visual type of notes making (tales, graphs, schemes, etc.);
• Now that you are ready to get down to disclosing your controversial research paper topic, do the following:

• Formulate the purposes of covering your controversial research paper topic and the ways of achieving them;
• Write down what methods you have used for covering your controversial research paper topic (interviews, analysis, etc.);
• Describe the research procedure itself;
• Say what conclusion you have come up with. Say why you have chosen this very controversial research paper topic. Do you think you have managed to cover it fully?

Thus, covering controversial research paper topics is a good exercise for your brains. Controversial research paper topics develop your critical thinking as well as research abilities.