If you hear the phrase “The winter is coming!” and think about severe frosts, white walkers and dying Jon Show, you’ve gone a little overboard with Game of Thrones binge-watching. Winter means fun, especially in such a small and snug town like Ann Arbor. It doesn’t “scatter” its holiday spirit in all the commercializing – Ann Arbor is the place where you’ll smell and feel the crispy, family-like Christmas atmosphere that you miss so much during your regular student days. That is really the time you can abstract yourself from studies and enjoy yourself, even more so with numerous winter activities popular in Ann Arbor (and affordable for broke college youth like yourself). So, let’s check out what you can do to benefit from the cold season to the maximum!…

In 2016 the number of purchased ebooks fell by 17%, and this year the demand for electronic readings as well as devices only continue to drop. It means that the hype for screen pages that can be turned with a swipe of a finger is decreasing every day, while the good old craving for a physical touch with a hardcover and paper is here to establish its superiority again.

We bet that you already have a picture in your head where you take a book, flick through the pages and feel its unique smell.  We’re totally with you right now! But if it appears that you have only the “soulless” e-reader and can’t enjoy all the charms of the real book, don’t fret – we have several perfect spots in Ann Arbor for you to get a printed novel or poem, and find your Zen….

Ann Arbor can boast about some big advances:

• It has one of the most prestigious colleges in the northern USA, the University of Michigan;
• It has an opportune environment for young specialists, as many companies are drawn to Ann Arbor because of the university research and competent grads;
• Forbes branded Ann Arbor as one of the best college sports towns in the USA no doubt because of its killer teams like the Wolverines and others.

Taking into account the last fact, it’s no wonder that Ann Arbor attracts students who can’t live without sport. But apart from great sports facilities and opportunities in colleges, the city also has a lot to offer to non-professional athletes who just like to keep fit. Thanks to its small size and little traffic, Ann Arbor allows locals to enjoy numerous sidewalks and really beautiful area. If you’re an avid runner or biker and want to check out Ann Arbor’s cool trails, here is a list of places you just can’t miss!…

If you’re still in high school and haven’t made up your mind yet about the college, you definitely haven’t heard about Ann Arbor and its famous University of Michigan. If you’re already enrolled into this stunning educational establishment and reside in this small city, you’ll be pleased to read that the University of Michigan is considered one of the most progressive research colleges in the USA (potential freshmen – behold!).

As for Ann Arbor itself, it’s a compact town, but that doesn’t mean that there is nothing to see or nowhere to take cool Instagram pics to make your friends jealous. In fact, there are loads of beautiful views and places that can generate a great deal of likes in social networks, and we will certainly share these locations with you. So, are you ready for an Instagram piccy hunt? Here we go!…

Contribution to the community is exceptionally popular in Ann Arbor and every year more and more students get involved into the variety of charitable activities. If you are still not one of those engaged and courageous people but consider it as an option, we are happy to guide you. First of all, let’s start with the benefits you get being involved into charity programs:…

82% of students who take a gap year, first of all, want to rest and take a step back from the academic field. So, if you are reading this article right now, you either have already enjoyed your time free from papers and research, or dismissed this opportunity not to waste months on understanding who you are and what you want to do with your life.

Anyway, all your decisions have led you to this point when you need to grasp the difference between the use of bibliography and literature review (yeah, students often get them confused while writing academic assignments). You have to get your bearings around these two notions in order not to mix them up and submit polished, flawless papers with all its parts completed correctly. Now let’s see what the fuss is all about….

Tags: annotated bibliography, citation, literature review

They say that you have to write an annotated bibliography to better get acquainted with the topic of your research. Usually, your professor asks you to do that before you start working on the actual paper, and, indeed, you find out more about the subject of your analysis, spot what has already been done in the field and how you can contribute to it.

The reason students twitch every time someone mentions annotated bibliography is that there are certain rules you have to follow while writing it – formatting details, a particular structure, and alphabetic order. Why is the last one so important? Because that’s the detail that students often get fried on and lose points: they mix up the order, sort out the sources by the first name of the author or the title of the piece (the right option is the author’s last name), etc. Make sure you avoid these sneaky errors and have a look at our sample list of annotated bibliography (alphabetical order strictly followed) formatted in APA. If you have another citation style for your paper, look up its rules….

Tags: annotated bibliography, citation, macroeconomics

Just imagine that as you read this article, every second adult and every sixth child are suffering from excess weight at this very moment. The US, New Zealand, Mexico and Hungary are the countries with the highest obesity rates among adults, and the overweight impacts their citizen’s social status as well as the physical and mental state. So, it’s actually no wonder if you get a writing assignment on obesity where you have to research one or several aspects of this soon-to-be global issue.

If you also get a task to produce an annotated bibliography for your paper, don’t worry. It’s not that difficult as it seems if you get your bearings in all the rules for completing it properly. And we in our turn will give you several examples of the annotated bibliography on obesity so that you could see those regulations used in practice. Moreover, we will provide them in 2 main citation styles: MLA and APA. Enjoy!…

Tags: annotated bibliography, citation, research paper

What can be difficult about writing a list of references and adding a short description to each of them? Well, nothing. But somehow during this straightforward writing assignment students still tend to lose scores not because they are not skilled enough to complete it, but because it has loads of pitfalls and details one always has to remember.

Here we will present you the best and the worst things you can do while creating an annotated bibliography – they will show you when your grade lowers down and how it can be raised. So, meet our annotated bibliography grading rubric and take those criteria into account every time you need to describe your sources!…

Tags: annotated bibliography, citation

In our previous guide, 10 Facts for a Research Paper on the History of the Middle East, we discussed facts that could help you compose a competent research paper, however, picking a suitable topic out of many for your research paper can be a daunting task.

Our second guide focuses on providing you with 20 topics for the Middle East research paper that are suitable for your research. You can select any one you see appropriate to write upon or even come up with your own.

Besides mentioning these 20 topics, we have also written a structured essay that contains credible information. This short sample essay will help you get a clear picture on how to write an essay or research paper on the topic you have chosen. We have also mentioned a few references at the bottom to help you discover more information on a particular topic. This last guide holds all the keys and tips on how to write a better research paper to help you score top notch marks.

So, here are our 20 topics you can consider when you’re writing a research paper on the history of Middle East:…

Tags: history, research paper