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write about some subjects you might be interested in researching this
semester. Consider some of the inquiry based questions you have
generated in class and consider your own personal interests. This is
pretty open and the content is really up to you. What is a problem that
you notice in your daily life? How might you characterize that problem
or issue? Some of the best inquiry based projects focus on particular
problems.
If
you are having a bit of trouble coming up with your research subject,
consider the research articles that are published on Stylus.
http://writingandrhetoric.cah.ucf.edu/stylus/issues.php
It
is important to note that not all articles published on Stylus are
inquiry based studies, so be sure to look for articles published from
ENC 1102 classes. Also, you might try watching some of the videos posted
on the blog or reading some of the articles for invention strategies
that might help.
Most importantly, find something that makes you wonder- that you care about!
Name: Desire Davis
ReplyDeleteDate: January 12, 2017
Assignment #: 2
Assignment: Inquiry Ideas
To just get started I just wanted to share some of my passions and hobbies. I love to clean, lift weights and write spoken word poems. I am very passionate about the advancement of African Americans, women empowerment, and embracing who you are. Some ideas for questions I could use for my Inquiry Based Research would be:
-Do females think they need outside assistance to be beautiful?
-How have African Americans struggled and succeed over the course of time? What strategies created the most progress?
-What is the definition of a strong black woman? How does the struggle of trying to be one do to average black women?
Hi Desire,
DeleteYou are onto some interesting questions here. The question of whether or not women and girls believe they need outside assistance to be beautiful seems like a question that we know the answer to. With that said, there are other interesting questions to explore along these lines. Perhaps exploring the shifting ethics of marketing to women in beauty care product categories could be interesting.
What kinds of initiatives have succeeded in helping women be more accepting of themselves, and how might these kinds of initiatives be leveraged further?
The question of what defines a strong, black woman is also interesting, and perhaps you could do some research into the ways of identity politics. I recommend you watch a TED talk by Bryan Stevenson. It's fantastic, and I want you to pay particular attention to Bryan's story about his maternal grandmother, and the role she played in his life.
You're working with some interesting topics here. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help you move your project forward.
- Joe
Growing up I have always been around children and absolutely loved playing with them and just taking care of them. At around thirteen I wanted my first summer job to be babysitting. When I got to high school my goals became more serious. I came across the idea of studying to become a neonatal nurse and had my mind set. I am now a nursing major and intend to stay that way. Some ideas I want to write about this semester are:
ReplyDelete- Going through nursing school what hardships did you face? Did you ever think you picked the wrong major? How did you get through the difficult things?
- Is there any possible way to prepare yourself for nursing school? Is there a way to prepare for the types of things you’ll see with this occupation?
- How has becoming a nursing major changed your social skills? Does it make your college experience different from what is expected of college students?
Hi Rachel,
DeleteWriting about something you're passionate about is critical for success in this class. Clearly, the question of what you will have to do to succeed as a nursing student is important to you. Perhaps more importantly, there are many others like you- they want to know about what might make the path smoother.
What are the pitfalls that can sometimes block nursing students from finishing?
What are some current challenges associated with nursing education, and what is the field doing to overcome these challenges?
Let me know if you need anything as you press forward with your project.
- Joe
The older I get the more passionate I get about my hobbies and interests. I love to play sports, especially soccer, I've been playing for the past fourteen years. Another topic I'm really interested in is researching career fields, and their incomes. Ever since I was a little girl, I wanted to work in Human Resources or be a teacher, but the older I get the more I research and learn about incomes. I am very passionate about politics, and am not afraid to state my opinion on subjects such as, racial equality and gender equality. Some idea I have been thinking about for questions I could use for my Inquiry Based Research would be.....
ReplyDelete-How do you make a living with student loans? How much time does it take to pay off based on the business career path?
-Why do certain job positions require a certain ethnicity or gender?
-When will women sports be appreciated as much as men?
-Why do women have harsher stereotypes than males, when it comes to sports?
- Why do college applications ask for which "race" you are?
Hey, my name is Noah, I am majoring in Guidance Counseling and School Administration. I am interested in researching the effects the costs of college have on students, during and after college, and the equality for all people and all genders, because I have witnessed both these issues myself. Some questions I have thought of are,
ReplyDelete*Why is college so expensive?
*What kinds of things are being done to help students battle student debt?
*Why do people feel the need to discriminate/judge people based on physical looks, or even sexuality?
*When did it become acceptable to discriminate against others?
*Why are men widely considered to be the "breadwinners" of a household?
*Why are men and women held to different standards when it comes to employment?
Because I'd like to focus on my interests for researching this semester, I'd want to guide my ideas into the general field of television/films and their writing aspect. Some ideas that I just quickly thought of were:
ReplyDelete- The idea of setting when someone watches any form of entertainment
- Different messages sent out to different genders
- Our generation and it's need to have everything readily accessible (binge watching as opposed to week-by-week tv watching)
Although, I haven't really thought about the questions behind them or the framing, angle I'd go in with, these are just some quick thoughts that I might possibly research.
I also briefly thought of the idea behind people's satisfaction towards items if they paid for it or not.
None the less, I'll definitely have to brainstorm a little more and focus on how I can word it and frame it to form an Inquiry Based Research question.
My name is Julian and I’d like to refer to myself as KingJulian. My major is so far undecided engineering but that has to do with none of my interests so far however it is still relevant to one of my questions. I have a simple life I go to school, work, gym, and then home. Throughout my day I think about ongoing issues that seem affect me on a daily basis and leave me wondering what to think and do.
ReplyDelete-Do men and women really need to be paid differently if performing the same job?
-Should steroids be acceptable in pro bodybuilding?
-Do universities need to have a specific target of minorities entering their schools?
-What effects do video games have if you play for prolong hours?
-Does going to college and earning your degree guarantee financial success?
-Will the cost of living be more affordable for the future generation?
To begin with, while thinking about this project for a little bit I realized I had no clue where to even start. So I took a break and began playing video games and came to the realization that games have been a big part of my life even all the way back to the nintendo 64. Some ideas I have include:
ReplyDelete1) how do video games influence career choice?
2) Is there really a correlation between video games and violence?
3) Do video games really "rot your brain" or actually lead to a more educated individual?
I'm a simple man. I understand there's a whole lot going on in the world but honestly my passion is sports and movies. I can't think of anything that intrigues me more than those two things, they're my hobbies and they truly make me happy. Sure I can force myself to write about the failing economy but I'd probably stop caring one paragraph in and sprinkle in so much BS that you could grow plants on my paper. If I write about movies, tv shows, sports teams it would be on a topic that I have plenty of knowledge on and it would be about something I TRULY care about and I'd actually enjoy working on the paper.
ReplyDeleteThe ideas I plan on addressing are:
- How important are sports teams to cities?
- Where do Professional athletes usually come from?
- How has the Oscar winning movies styles changed in the last decade?
- How is Netflix or other online streaming sources slowly taking over as the main host for TV shows?
They're just ideas for now and I'm sure they'll change as time goes on and I can think more about them but these are the questions that *I* care about.
Bronson Heath
ReplyDelete1/16/2017
ENC 1102
Inquiry Ideas
I have quite a few hobbies and interests. I love sports, particularly basketball and football, working out, reading, and listening to music, to name a few. Some topics that I feel very strongly about and have a few points to talk about in my research project are social inequality and the advancement of African Americans, debt for college students/American households, and advanced technology in sports.
Questions:
*What is truly behind the increasing prices in college tuition?
*Does a degree truly equal success and prosperity in life after college?
*Has social tension between whites and African Americans really declined?
*Will there ever truly be social and racial equality?
I find sports and social trends interesting because their constant fluctuation and them always being relevant in our daily lives. So with that being said the ideas I’ve been considering are as follows
ReplyDelete-The effects of the addition of the three-point line on the game of basketball
- The effects of modern technology on today’s youth (the modern need to have easy access to everything)
- How the value of/need for a college education has changed in the past years
Karla Zepeda
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January 17, 2017
Topics like women's rights, immigration and how we live our everyday life have always caught my attention. Therefore for my research paper I would like to explore topic questions like:
- How equal are men and woman in today's society?
-Is it harder for women to advance in job positions than men?
-How would amnesty for illegal immigrants affect the United States?
-How affective is the school system in preparing us for the future?
-What are the effects of social media in our everyday life?
Kurt Adler
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I have many hobbies all the way from card games to playing sports. I’ve always loved playing sports ever since I was a little kid. A sport in particular, soccer, has really taken over my life because I’ve been playing since I was four years old. Although, for this project, instead of delving into my favorite sport, I feel that researching topics that deal with social problems/differences will benefit me the most. I have always been very interested in social topics that deal with ones physical appearance and ones mindset about his or her appearance. Some ideas I have are:
- What common characteristics make a male more attractive than other males, from a female perspective?
- What are the reasons why men go to the gym versus why women go to the gym?
- Why are females always portrayed to have less self-esteem than males?
- How satisfied area males with their appearance vs how females are? Why and why not are they satisfied?
While my father is the typical born and raised American, my mother came to the US as an immigrant at 16. She has always been a driving force in my interest in immigration and truly understanding how people feel when coming to this country. She believed putting your best foot forward would lead to success no matter from where you're from, and she's proved that through herself. From a 16 year old immigrant with no family in the country and not a penny to her name to a fluent English speaker who now owns her own business, my mother has always been the epitome of "the American Dream" in my eyes. Being a political science major and having an interest in immigration policies and how immigrants contribute to the United States overall, while also having a personal connection to the topic, I feel like this would be a wonderful place to start writing. I’ve also seen the current atmosphere in the United States on immigration, so that makes me want to voice my opinion as well. My question will most likely go along the lines of:
ReplyDelete- How welcome do international students feel in UCF and how included are they in the campus culture?
- How can universities better their inclusion processes for international students?
- What stigmas are still held against immigrants entering the United States?
- How strong is the belief of the "American Dream" in immigrants coming to the United States?
I'm Emmanuela and in the future I want an occupation as an Obstetrician Gynecologist. I am passionate about learning about why people do the things they do, sex and reproduction, and women empowerment.
ReplyDeleteFor now, some questions I came up for my Inquiry Based Research are:
1.Why is there a double standard for men and women in society?
2.Why is it harder for men to control their drive?
3.Why do men get away with not "being able" to control their sex drive?
4.What is the difference between societies definition of a women and women's definition on women?
Suchely Garcia
ReplyDeleteENC 1102
Inquiry Ideas
I’ve always been interested in things that relate to my generation. I remember having a conversation with my manager, and her telling me how she appreciates her young employees because they are not like other young employees. She was saying that some of her coworkers have young employees with very poor work ethics, and then she asked me “what do you think contributes to those bad work ethics?” Since then I’ve always asked myself the same question. How do previous generations impact our generation’s work ethic? Another subject that really grabs my attention is gender roles. Do men/women find it difficult to keep up with society’s expectations of their role?
Baldwin Suen
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Inquiry Ideas
I chose computer science because it seemed like the most convenient major for me to study. In a way I felt that I was good at creative problem solving and my open mindedness and bright disposition I had to offer while in social environments helped me develop connections with people while still communicating my ideas in a friendly but affirmative manner. Computer science seemed like a gateway to infinite learning and I admired those who had already succeeded in the field.
**What are the characteristic differences between logical problem solvers and creative problem solvers?
**To what extent has ethnicity and culture affected how they act in social environments?
**How has everybody’s strive to be unique created new standards for norm?
Two of my favorite hobbies in this world are watching movies and playing sports. An interesting movie is one of my favorite things, I could sit and watch movies for hours. Sports have always had a special place in my heart. I’ve played many sports, but my two favorites are baseball and golf. It is because of my love for these two sports that I am actually pursuing a career in sports management. Besides these two hobbies, one thing that I am interested in is a college student’s decision on what major they want to pursue. Some ideas I have are:
ReplyDelete- What factors of a major affect the decision of a college student to pursue that career choice (money, job security, parents have same job, something they love)?
- The effects of modern technology on different sports.
- How are gender stereotypes portrayed in character relationships in movies?
I have quite a handful of interests that would make my researching enjoyable and informative. I am majoring in Health and Pre-Clinical sciences, so one of those interests involves around the human body and its responses to the environment and stimuli. In my free time, I also enjoy playing sports, particularly football, soccer, and basketball, as well as working out, listening/making music, and playing video games. So, based upon my interests, I have developed these questions in which I would be interested in researching:
ReplyDelete-Why do psychedelics continue to be considered as taboo despite their roots in prehistoric times?
-How can a drug, more dangerous than Heroin, be inside your own medicine cabinet?
-How has the sound of Rap/Hip-Hop music evolved (or devolved)?
Name: Luke Morris
ReplyDeleteDate: 1/17/2017
Assignment #: 2
Assignment: Inquiry ideas
My personal interests are very wide ranging. I am interested in pursuing a career in some type of law practice although I’m not sure which specific kind yet, I am also interested in politics. I’m borderline obsessed with fitness and leading a healthy lifestyle, I have a curiosity to understand more about all the unrest going on in the middle east and what the central conflict is. Another thing about me is I lost my father when I was 8 so I may be interested in knowing the pros and cons of growing up with a single mother or the pros and cons of being a latchkey kid. Also I am a gamer, I enjoy playing Call of Duty, NBA 2k, and Madden. Additionally, over the winter break I had upper and lower jaw surgery to correct an under bite that I had developed and the anesthesia went bad and I suffered acute respiratory failure and flat lined twice. Thereafter I was put into a medically induced coma for 8 days and had to be on a ventilator to breath. I had some weird dreams and things happen to me after I came out of a coma that I am curious about. Some questions that pop into my head about these interests of mine are as follows:
-Which type of law practices have the highest average income?
-How can an aspiring law student prepare themselves best for the rigorous and infamous BAR Exam?
-What are the pros and cons of various types of law practices?
- How does a person with a law degree make his way into the political world?
-What are the most successful and efficient workout methods to sculpt your routine around?
-How big of a role does a healthy diet play in accelerating your fitness progress?
-Why is the middle east so unstable?
-Does religion play a big role in the conflict that happens in the middle east?
-Which part of the Quran allegedly calls for Islamic followers to purge infidels?
-Can becoming a great video gamer increase IQ and overall intelligence?
-What are the positive and negative effects of binging videogames?
-Do video games lead to more abstract thought?
-What are the causes of Acute Respiratory Failure while on anesthesia?
-What do people coming out of a coma report experiencing in the few days after that are bizarre?
-What are the advantages and disadvantages of being raised by a single mother?
-What are the pros and cons of being a latchkey kid?
Recently I watched a documentary about happiness and what it really means to people. Everybody values different things with varying levels of importance in their life. To me it would be interesting to determine how these values affect someone’s happiness. Things like money, religion, social standing, family are all possible topics. Another genre that I would consider exploring is about how students make decisions about their career. It would be interesting to look at what causes students to make what they feel to be the wrong decision. Also I could look at what make some student who go through all required schooling and test but still can’t perform their job.
ReplyDeleteJason Litwak
ReplyDelete1/17/16
Assignment 2
Inquiry Ideas
As a kid growing in south Florida I always loved the water. My grandfather furthered my love for the ocean once he got a boat and we started deep sea fishing, taking trips to the Bahamas, etc. I also got certified to scuba dive and licensed to drive a boat at a young age. The water is not my only hobby although my major is marine biology.
-Why haven't we made leaps and bounds in discovering more of the ocean?
-What other organisms can be found in the ocean?
-How much time is required for each expedition to gather an abundance of information?
These are just a few for now that I can think of. More are on the way.