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Writing Assignment: A Spark
You spend all summer trying to get close to your crush. You go bowling even though you hate bowling. You send emails and IM and finally you are out on date, just the 2 of you. Unfortunately, the conversation is forced, your date is answering text messages all through dinner, and you just want it to be over. Luckily, it will be because you aren’t married.
At this point, you are not married to your research topic yet either. You are in the dating stages and if things are not going well, you can look for a new topic or give this one another chance. The work you are doing in this assignment is like dating your topic. You are seeing if you like it and if there is enough substance to take this topic all the way.
Nothing is more frustrating than discovering at the eleventh hour that there is not much information about your topic, that all the sources say the same thing, or that the topic isn’t as interesting as you thought. To avoid these pitfalls, this assignment will give you a little preview of how the project will go and give your instructor enough information to guide you toward successful discovery.
1. Complete the chart that presents your overall research question and the series of questions you will explore in relation to the main question. Add as many additional squares as you like to the middle levels. Feel free to complete more than one chart if you are considering more than one topic or more than one direction in the same topic.
Topic
Main (General) Discovery Question
Focused Discovery Questions
Specific Discovery Questions
Follow up Question
Video Games
How does playing violent video games lead to violence in youth?
What should be done to prevent this problem?
What video games are on the market that are violent?
What research says about violence of violent video games?
What are the effects of violent video games?
What kind of violence is in these games?
What is the age range and area of the purchases of these games?
What studies have been done?
How are these studies done?
What are the effects of violent video games?
What are the effects of violent video games?
http://www.center4research.org/violent-video-games-can-increase-aggres sion/
National Center for Health Research
Lauren Goldbeck, and Alex Pew
Violent video games and agression
March 27, 2018
NA
Video games can cause more agression and violence to ones life.
Southern Economic Journal, April 2016, v. 82, iss. 4, pp. 1247-65
Cunningham, Scott; Engelstatter, Benjamin; Ward, Michael R.
Violent Video Games and Violent Crime
Violent Video Games and Violent Crime
April 2016
1247-65
Video games are a popular leisure activity, many researchers and policymakers have said that violent games cause violent behaviors. Lab experiments have found evidence suggesting that violent video games increase aggression.
Library
Miller, Michael
Violent Video Games: Harmful or Not?
Miller, Michael
NA
NA
2018