There are two main goals in this class. The first is to develop your own writing voice, and the second is to investigate climate change and the literature surrounding it. For your research paper you may choose either of these avenues to investigate.
If you choose the first option, I would like you to research something you are interested in, and write a paper exploring a specific part of your interest. Below are several questions I want you to consider and write about in order to begin brainstorming for your final research paper.
Option one:
What are you a specialist in? Whether you realize it or not you are a specialist in many things. I want you to list some and write about why you are a specialist in that particular topic.
I then want you to choose a few from that list and answer: how would you see something differently than others who do not possess the knowledge you have in this area? What are some of the things that you may see differently than others?
I then want you to think about how you would see this from a different angle in these areas. How can you expand your way of approaching this idea? What is the opposite point-of-view? How can that help you see other ways of approach?
The final part of this brainstorming exercise is then for you to extract some idea from the above steps that you want to investigate further. I then want you to try to formulate a research question from this idea so I can see the direction that you want to go with your research.
