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Background Topical Research Guidelines from the Tibetan Renaissance Seminar

This can be fairly factual rather than interpretative, and basically constitutes doing background research on the fundamentals involved in a given phenomena - a symbol, movement, cultural region, or whatever. This assignment takes the pressure of you to be really analytical or interpretative, and allows you to focus on just researching a topic and synthesizing available information about it into an easy to understand and well organized presentation.

In writing these assignments, follow the following general guidelines:

• General Guidelines for all Textual Data
• Introduction: Using Microsoft Word Styles
• Using Word Styles for THDL Markup
• Word Styles Thematic Markup for Blue Annals

Examples: Background Topical Research Essays