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1.  My major reasearch topic is love at first sight and if it really does exist or is it just a strong sexual attraction?  I met my boyfriend while I was bartending at the tavern I work at back home.  He asked me on a date the first time he saw me and I declined.  I only worked on saturdays andafter he figured out my schedule he would come in almost every saturday asking me on a date.  He was willing to drive an hour to a bar that he didnt know anyone in just to see me. Finally I said yes.  For him it was love at first sight but for me it took some warming up. 

2. 5 assumptions

I think that love at first sight can happen to one person or both.  I think that one must have a certain personallity to be able to feel those emotions so quickly. I think that sometimes it reallly is love.  I think that sometimes it creates major issues with stalking.  Finally I think that in order for it to work out there needs to be a deep mental connection made aswell.

5 questions

Can love at first sight be felt by only one person or must it be felt by both?  Is there a specific personality type that love at first sight happens often for?  do any married couples or couples that have been together for a long time feel as though it was love at first sight?  In a case where one person feels it and the other doesnt are there ever issues with stalking and unwanted contact?  What kind of mental connection must be made after the initial sexual attraction is achived.

3.  How will my reasearch be different?

many different kinds of scientific reaseach has been done about this topic as to weather or not it exisits and what kind of people it exisits for but in my own paper i plan on extracting personal interviews and gaining insight through both using the scientific evidence and the personal evidence to provide an answer as to weather or not this is a common emotion.  My reasearch will help different dating services and even couples to explain the phenomina that is love at first sight.

4.  I plan on polling couple on campus as well as teachers and other random students on weather or not they think love at first sight exisits and if so has it ever happened to them.  I then plan on using their insight, my own, and the scientific evidence to come up with a conclusion as to exactly how common is love at first sight.

According to the article that I read there are two main genres of reasearch writting.  These are analytical and arguementitive. The arguementitive version of a reasearch paper, in shot trys to persuade the reader to believe the authors point of view.  The analytical version of the reasearch paper persents all angles of reasearch and is basically strickly facts.  Both genres are very effective depending on the authors overall goal of writing the piece.

I have narrowed my topics for my reasearch paper down to two.  The first would be IUP female athletes.  My reasoning for this would be I am very intrested in this topic and being an IUP female athelete I think that it is a topic that would be close to my heart.  I also think that it would be fun to reasearch because I would be able to interview lots of atheletes on campus and get mulitpile opinions.  My second topic would be love at first sight.  This is also a topic that would be close to my heart because i met my boyfriend and he automatically fell in love with me  but I did not have the same reaction.  This has been done before though so it may be hard to find a new spin.

for both of theses papers I would shoot for a more analytical genre because I really dont have an opinon on either and I would be presenting all the information that I could find.  Through reasearch I may gain an opinion of love at first sight and if I do I may opt to write an arguementitive paper.

Through reasearch I have narrowed my choices down to 3 main topics

My first topic was IUP female athletes and eating disorders.  I had an intrest in learning just how common they are among people in the communtity that I reside.  Eating disorders are a serious topic and have affected me personally so they are very common and very dangerous.  The hard part of this topic is that it is so common the only difference I could think of was focusing specifically on swimming at IUP.  My question would be How common and How severe are eating disorders within the IUP swim team.  FOr this I would do the creative assignment with some kind of movie and a paper.

My second topic was love at first sight.  I really wanted to know if there is something that exists with in this topic. This is important because many people believe in this and think that it has happened to them.  I wanted to do a comparison on love vs. lust and poll the community on weather or not they think it exists.  The reasearch would be specific to this area and would connect with couples on a personal level with their experience.  Is there really such a thing as love at first sight or is it just lust.  Agian for this I would do the creative assignment with some kind of movie.

My final topic is the harm caused by facebook and other internet sources that are popular.  I want to learn more about the dangers of being on facebook.  Many employers, coaches, and professors are now on facebook and some things on there can be incrimnating.  There are many articles on the dangers of facebook but not many that I could find on its harm to collegiate athletes and there ability to compete and preform.  My question would be What is the punishment and likely hood of a IUP athlete getting caught with something via facebook at maximum security.  Again I would do the creative assignment and possibly fing a way to create better security or make a video.

The article I read was from http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~bioslabs/tools/report/reportform.html and it was entitled How to write a reasearch paper.  It summed up basically every aspect of the paper itself from the abstract till the conculsion.  Its stated that in order to have a good reasearch topic you must have a good reasearch question and one that you can easily find information about.  The article even explained how to organize your materials and not get confused, this is a key part of writing and something that could make or break your paper. 

Reasearch writing to me is any time you go and lookinto something and then write about it. say I was going to schedule my classes and i look them up and judge by credit, course work, and my professor, which courses to take. Of course i would have to take notes on these things in order to remember them.  That is reasearch writing i found a topic, had a question, took notes on it, and came to a conclusion.  Anyone can be a reaseach writer all that is required are the things i listed above and we do these things on the daily.  the term reasearch itself has been given a negative connotation but really it is something that we all do quite often.  A reasearch question is developed by simply generating a question on any topic and looking into it to find the answer.  In my class’s case we must make sure that no one else has done the question in the same way before and that is very challenging.

My philosophy of reasearch

I will define and answer a question that i am interested in and in order to do so i will conduct reasearch and gather data in order to come up with an answer to the question that others can access if they have the same question.

Dear Melinda,

Wow! you are not the person I thought you were! I first met you thinking you were a good student that i wouldnt have to worry about.  WRONG!! Your yelling at me first started this all.  But we chatted and are fine.  You now procrastinate and you neded to get your little tush in gear and fix your mess ups before you FAILLLL! come on girl!

love, Marlen

dear marlen,

I honestly have no problems with you. I mean yes we have had our quarrlellls but it was all in good fun and i truly do respect you.  My problems in this class were more within myself.  One being procrastination, this is a big one that i am trying to overcome.  The second and biggest one is trust.  Its not that I dont trust you, thats not it at all. Its that i dont trust anyone, ever.  I hate opening up and seeming vulnerable and being judged, not that your would do that but its still the concept of it.  I respect you and apperciate all you have done.

sincerly,

Melinda J. Borgnis

Intro: quote from my writing, descripton of quote… from what is i? how has this changed?

I: Describe physical characteristics

II: describe changes in class

III: describe honesty and my problem with trust

IV: Describe how my friends family and current event relate into my writing

V: describe how this is in my writing

conclude: bring back i and how that has changed and how i am different becuse of this class

I really feel as though alot of my writing pretains to curret events or current happenings in my life, such as laura and rape and anorexia and kate and all those things and alot ties to my family and my friends because i trust them and they are such a huge part of who iam I am very hard to get to know and so the people that know me are held near to my heart. The things that happen in my life dont often get expressed and therefore when i write i feel as though i can open up more easily, which may also be a reason that i procrastinate and each peice of my writing seems as though it is lacking something or some passion in it.  I know in the back of my mind that someone else will read this peice and judge me on it or even get to know me from it and that scares me.  I have a problem with trust and letting people in so others reading my work worries me and i am often not whole heartedly honest in my work.  My best friends dont even  know alot of me because … people always leave and that is sooo freakin true the only ones who stay your whole life are your parents and for some they leave too, but not me mine will always be there because they loveme.

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