It all began with being a college student right now.
It happened when Virginia Tech happened.
It was inspired by our conversations about murder not being "common sense" and why?
I began my paper.
I'm discussing VT using many of the Advanced Composition topics. I am reading a lot about the incident and making connections between it and identity, rhetoric, apology, common sense, and I'll somehow work in persuasion. I'm content. I feel like I have something to say about my topic and want to look at VT this way-- Firstly, I have a yearning to learn everything I can about what happened at VT because of personal interest and I think that's important in any research paper (wanting to do the research).
I haven't yet looked through my Advanced Comp. texts to make the direct connections, but this week is dedicated to this paper. I'm not sure if my topic will narrow. At one point I was thinking about the identity of a murderer, but we'll see. I will bring something new to the table and have a lot of knowledge about something that will be a huge part of history, which is important to me.
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Sounds like a great place to start. But we talked about a lot of topics in class, maybe too many to tackle at once. It sounds like narrowing the focus would be helpful to you in the end. Something like, how did the University deal with the press, or whether the press was justified in flooding the town like it did. The identity of the killer idea is really good and rich, but that is a mighty deep puddle. If you jump in that one you may never touch bottom. If you wanted to stay on the topic of the killer, though, maybe ask if everyone else's automatic projection of a readymade identity (nerd, dork, outsider, whatever) onto Cho was what let his truly screwed up self slip under the radar.
Good luck, and thanks for the comment.
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