Paper Guidelines

I'm truly thankful that we now have paper guidelines, this is going to help with my paper a lot.  I need to make more thesis more specific, and something less obvious.  I also have to do a better job on focusing everything back to community.  I was wondering how everybody else did that and if they had any suggestions for me?  It would be greatly appreciated.  P.S.  Sucks if you didn't go to class today!