Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Post One for ENGL 1102

-What is your research question/inquiry question?

The basic topic is either emotional mental health or stress (it depends on how much more resources I can find on the subjects).  How will emotional causes(depression, negative self-esteem)affect a person's mindset?  What cause these emotional effects?  (These question can be apply to stress as well.)
-Why did you settle on this question? What interests you about the topic? Explain.

I was research for something along the line of mental health.  I just found emotional mental health as a subset.  If it can't find much resources on emotional health, then I just focus on a common topic of stress.  The psychological process of a human being is what interested me into this topic because it's either mental or machinery (which I can't relate to health) that I am interested in writing about.

-How is your question/topic timely? Why is it important to address this topic? Why should people care about it?

My topic is for when students are easily affected by their emotions without aware of the consequences.  the topic will allows them to be aware of their mindset, and how it affects their works.  People can care about it if they are interested in it.  No one will care for something he/she isn't interested about.

-What do you expect to find in your research? What preliminary research have you done that makes you expect this?

Positive and negative effects of emotions on people's lifestyles and works.  An article, "Mental health problems in childhood and adolescence", stated the emotional problems causing the outcomes on people throughout their life.

-Are you coming across scholars w/ different answers to your question, or different views of your topic? (If you're NOT and people seem to all agree, then your research question and topic probably aren't worth pursuing, right?) Explain what these answers/views are that you are finding. (Remember that our textbook warns us of the dangers of binary thinking on pg. 6.)What do you think about the different viewpoints? Where do you stand on the issue, and do you think your mind could change the further you get into this semester-long inquiry?

I am somewhat seeing my topic in different views. 
How these emotional situations might positively affect people?  How to prevent major consequences from these problems?  Is it possible to ignore it like most people with only minor consequences?  Can you change these problems to create positive outcomes?
The viewpoints can be useful for stating more information about my topic than just focusing on the topic's basic questions.  I like this topic and think I can find some positive outcomes on emotional situation, but I might change topic as I get further into this assignment.  I can't be sure that I will find what I want.

2 comments:

  1. Jason, this seems like a very broad topic that I think you'll want to narrow as you conduct your research. Perhaps you are interested in focusing on college students?

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    1. Would "Emotional stress on college students" be a more appropriate?

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