Extra Credit Blog Post

One of the resources I've found to be very helpful in helping me narrowing down my topic for my issues paper is the GALE Reference Library. It has been very helpful in helping me narrow down my topic and what questions I plan to answer. I also found that making a list with a lot of questions has helped me figure out exactly what I've wanted to focus on, and then I just researched from there. Finding certain research, and articles on what questions could be answered throughout my paper really helped me organize my paper in numerous ways that I didn’t even know when to start. Once I started, it was easy to make all my topics, examples, and ideas flow together because I already knew what was coming next and how to connect the two ideas was just something I had to figure out.

I realized that my target audience can be anyone, but I want to mainly focus my main points around those students who think that dropping out of college is a good idea. I have never thought it is a good idea so I think by adding my own personal thoughts into my argument and paper will benefit the purpose of why I am writing the paper other than I am just writing a paper based on others ideas. It will be very difficult to sound persuasive when a lot of money is involved considering that the major reason why college students dropout of college is because of the financial burdens and costs they’ll have to pay during their journey through college. I think I’ll have to craft this argument into helping my audience see that not only is this big expense going to be a befit but it will be a very big one in the long run when skipping through college isn’t the wisest choice you can make. Its always hard to be able to predict the future, and I can’t really use myself as a credible source in that way because I just started college, but showing statistics and stuff will help make my paper a little bit more formal. I don’t really want to focus my paper on being a research paper, I kind of want it to be more like an opinion editorial paper on steroids I guess.

 

One of my biggest concerns with a paper this size is just making everything flow together. Its something I will have to keep in mind the whole time, but it requires a lot of time that it will be difficult. It has been easy to research and find relevant sources to my paper, I just hope it all will come together nicely. I know what I want my paper to look like, and I hope I can perform that so it will be one good paper.