Lauren Flores
My Research process has changed attention from one topic to another. I went from thinking about a topic that was deep and important to just moving on to a topic that would be worth while investigating for me. I was focused on researching Public school students’ opportunities in New York compared to those of private schools. This is a topic that interest me, but that topic is very self-explanatory without the research. I was already drawing a conclusion without knowing any stats because it was a question that didn’t need much research to answer.
I switched to the question of how social media affects people’s engagement in voting. Many people use social media, but I would like to research how it affects the way they vote or what they do. This new question is not simply answered but will require research from me to answer it or get closer to a concrete answer.
I am now up to finding my sources which will also develop the main question. My professor has taught me how to play with my words in order to find more varied results. I am very fortunate that the question I am researching does has many different sources, but they do target different parts of my question. There are some sources talking about how social media influences the youths’ voting activism. There are sources that discuss how social media affects the youth’s activism in global warming. So I am now just reshaping my question based on the sources that I find.
