The responses from my Crit Response are not all too surprising, as they highlight my common weaknesses in writing. Often I write sentences and do not realize they read in a confusing manner or just sound plain awkward so it makes sense that I did this in my Crit Response and still have to continue to better myself. Secondly, titling my paper is new to me as I don’t remember the last time before this class that I had to title a paper with anything. I’m learning how to properly title a paper and as a result it makes sense my first paper’s title wasn’t good enough to earn full credit, but I’m getting there and I’m happy with the score I received.

I think I’ve finally found the right topic, as it balances the areas of concern I had. I was worried I would feel bias from already knowing so much about something I’m passionate about and inflict that too much into my paper. And while I certainly still go into the research with a bias, I can minimize it by doing as Gerard said, researching what I don’t fully know. I am very pro-gun and have argued the issue for many years, but I have not fully delved into how the procedures to acquire a concealed carry license may affect those who need it most, the impoverished. Do the barriers between them and the legal licensing end up protecting them from themselves and making mistakes, or do they leave them without protection in a dangerous place? Would it press them to the point of carrying illegally because they see no other option? I am very eager to research this issue as the poor shouldn’t have to deal with more unfairness, and I wish to find out if this licensing process helps them or not. And with the murder rate in desperate areas of Chicago or Detroit being so high, I feel protection is an important issue to be sure the correct decision is being made about

Hey Jason,

I’m starting a research paper soon, so I need to choose a topic and I’m no good at that.  There’s a lot I’m passionate about, the only issue is that I don’t know what I would want to say with presenting the information of that subject. So I have topics, I just need questions about the topics to fuel the purpose for my research and have an end goal, you’re always good at asking questions or posing critiques that lead to arguments, though if only because you enjoy arguing more than actually developing a view point. Also, deciding whether or not to do a political topic is difficult as well, ‘hot’ political topics are not allowed but I wouldn’t plan on doing those specific ones anyway. It would be helpful to do one, as I already frequently discuss it and therefore know where I can find sources and relevant information however I feel that may result in a heavy bias (Though that may be okay in this circumstance) and connecting the different arguments may be difficult. Perhaps I could choose a school of thought on a book I enjoy, and proceed to refute/agree with it, that would be fun as it allows for a lot of free-flow argument along with the required citing.  At the very least these two options would keep me interested, and that’s what I want, so I could develop these ideas and maybe find something that would combine the two so as to not choke my arguments with too many sources nor starve it with none.

Sincerely,
Cole