Topic: How quarantine affects our health.
Research Question:
- How does quarantine affect physical health?
- How does quarantine affect mental health?
- How does no exercise affect your health?
Dear Professor,
During my research I came across a lot of resource that I could use, it was hard to choose among them since at first my topic was just about “how quarantine affect physical health” but I gradually realize it was too hard since not many reliable source is out there since there not much incident that is about quarantine. As a result I expanded my topic to how it affects our health which made the whole thing much easier to find more sources. The possession was helpful since I was learning about my topic and was able to adapt to make things better since the topic is more recent and there is less information on it.
My first source CDC(2019) introduced how physical activities are important to the human body. It later branched out on how being physically inactive will lead to many problems like heart disease and diabetes. They also benefit from being physically active during everyday lives. This source might be a bit off my topic and I believe so but it introduces the point of importance of physical activities. My second source is from Mattioli(2020), it talked about how during quarantine we are less likely to be physically active since there are not many ways to be physically active at home leading to cardiovascular disease. Unhealthy diet is also introduced along the process since many store products are limited because of manufacturers unable to provide enough product contributing to more physical problems. My third is from Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes(2020) is a professional therapist that does study on psychological health, she talks a lot about how fear and lack of information has a direct effect of the quarantine. Fear brings stress to a person leading to a higher chance of mental illness. Lack of information is also related to fear in sort of a way since she talked about if the government misleads information to the public it would bring fear to the citizen since unknown is a scary factor. Source 4 (Doyle 2021, March 04) was an example of how a student being quarantined was being extremely stressed out and lonely during his time of quarantine. This was meant to be an example of how quarantine can change a person and the mental damage it can cause to a student. Hansen was the student being in this source, he was lonely and was not able to concentrate on what he was doing.
After reading these sources I further understand how quarantine impacts our health. Now I understand the effects of quarantine, it brings fear, isolation, and insufficient physical activity. These factors will affect both our mental and physical health. There is still a lot that I need to find in order to have a better outcome since the topic is still a bit hard since it is something that is recent so things are a bit complicated to write. I believe that using these sources I will be able to write a clear fact that quarantine is not something great since we are social creatures and we need to interact with each other and move in the outside world.
Sincerely
Jon Li
I read the first paragraph, and I think it might be useful if you talked a bit about your essay detail and not just the progress but it seems cool though. Also what does “The possession” mean, I thought you meant to write the “conversion” or “expansion”?
The way how you explain all your sources was really good, I think you should have tried to at least connect them. Even though it might be obvious to how they are connected together, I think it is still just useful to describe how you area going to connect them together.
Overall great start, but I would just add one more paragraph or integrate it into the second paragraph on how all the sources are connected together.
I have read through your synthesis letter, and here are some questions or suggestions for you.
1. In the first paragraph, I think about half of it is not very connected to the main idea. I personally think that the audience does not need to know the process of how you determine your topic.
2. I think your topic is still little broad, you might need to narrow it down a bit, age groups, locations, people with different careers, etc.
3. All of your resources are well connected to your topic that how quarantine affects people’s physical health, however, I just wonder how are you going to connected those four ideas, what are the relationships of these four sources.
overall, this is a great work, your ideas are very clear to me.