After military engineering, civil engineering is the oldest engineering field, so there are plenty of topics available for this field, including an analysis of the history of the discipline. Students may also want to select a civil engineering topic based on their classroom discussions, areas of personal interest, based on specific assignment guidelines or using a specific civil engineering sub-specialty. The civil engineering field is typically segmented by area of specialty (i.e., surveying, coastal engineering, water resources engineering and so forth), and any of these sub-specialties can form the basis for a scholarly analysis. If students are stuck finding a topic that is best suited for them, Questia offers a free writing center that generates topics on topics of interest. Likewise, Wikiversity provides a concise description of civil engineering together with a number of topic areas that would be appropriate for this purpose such as road design, structural engineering, environmental engineering and construction engineering as well as useful links to additional resources.