My past experiences with research writing in school involved a lot of stress and frustration. We got a topic, prompt and question and had to read and write about "How we felt about the topic" If we disagreed or agreed then do research on that topic. My teacher was a jerk and if he disagreed with you, he would try and sway your opinion and that experience made me hate research projects. I was always good at the research part, but I as never good at adding in my side to the story to make it even a little bit persuasive, especially while I was questioning myself.
This time there was a list of topics I could pick from for my project, a lot of them peaked my interest but the one that spoke to me was "How can America reduce or eliminate the country's pattern of mass shootings?" I have always found mass shootings interesting and questionable. Why did they do it? What triggered them? How could a person ever do that to another person? Seeing this stuff on the news really hit me because you really never know when or why something like this could happen or if you could find yourself in the middle of one. I have decided to lean my project more towards mass shootings in school instead of just in general. I believe there is a lot of ways we could go about reducing the amount of mass shootings when it comes to schools and children.
My research project drafts can be found here:
Mass shootings vs. America. How can we fix it? Draft #1
Mass shootings vs. America. How can we fix it? Final draft