TESU Capstone - Constitutional Questions?

[mysonx3]

I'm sure you can find a way to do a subject along these lines. The main issue will likely be whether your mentor requires you do original research, and if so, how you can incorporate such research into your paper. Most people use either surveys or interviews to conduct their original research. I was lucky and my mentor did not require such.

Trying to avoid controversial issues is not the path I would choose to keep a paper interesting.

In my course, the first assignment was to write research questions for three different ideas. The mentor gave feedback on them, which helped me make up my mind (actually just having to formulate the questions made my choice pretty clear to me).

Thank you for the feedback. Going to respond to each of your paragraphs one by one:

1. Yeah, I guess it depends on the mentor and what their requirement is regarding original research. Even if they do require original research, it depends on what their definition of that is - would be kind of strange if the entire discipline of law was considered off-limits by a professor because they don't consider reading court cases to be "original research enough". I'll also note that the new syllabus for the Capstone explicitly says that original research is not a requirement, though of course it will still depend somewhat on the professor. I'm registered with Otto, so I guess we'll see.

2. I don't mean to avoid a controversial issue (if it wasn't controversial, it wouldn't be a constitutional "question"), but rather to avoid a partisan issue (I know, kinda tricky to find a controversial non-partisan issue, but I've got a couple in mind that are at least possibly non-partisan).

3. That sounds very helpful, hopefully mine will be the same!