Issues for thought on my research paper

Part I: Exploration
1. Identify the issue or problem that you plan to focus on in your research project.
Immigration from Mexico to America is changing America for the better.

2. What is your personal connection to and interest in this topic?
My personal interest in this would be that I’m Mexican and my father immigrated here, and we know extended family friends who have also immigrated here to the United States.

3. What opinions do you already hold about this topic?
I can honestly say I’m on the fence. I see why Mexicans want to come here, to help make a better life for themselves, but at the same time you can’t illegally come and stay here. It’s just not right.

4. What knowledge do you already have about this topic? What are your main questions about this topic? What are you most curious about?
I know that the issue of immigration laws has been in the news rather recently, and that there are such controversial issues with laws. My main question would be if immigration of Mexicans here to America is a good thing not just for them but for America as well. I’m most curious about finding out if immigrants better or take away from society as a whole.

5. Within what scholarly discipline (such as history, biology, psychology) do you expect to do most of your research? How does this discipline approach or study this topic?
I would expect to do most research within history and the patterns over time, oh how many immigrants come and the affect it has on society and what it does for the economy.

6. How could you research this topic outside the library (for example, through interviews and/or observations)?
I could interview my father, and his view on what it means to be allowed to live here. Possibly go to communities that are known for having lots of immigrants and see what it’s really like.


Part I: Exploration
1. Identify the issue or problem that you plan to focus on in your research project.
I would want to focus on this issue of how many people are truly happy with their career choice.

2. What is your personal connection to and interest in this topic?
I know a lot of people who do their job because it makes money, and not because it’s what they want to do everyday. Yet there are people that I do know that enjoy they’re job and don’t like at it as something they have to do yet something they want to do everyday.

3. What opinions do you already hold about this topic?
I think more people are going to work not happy about they’re doing, but are more worried about paying the bills. And it’s sad because I think that your job should be something that you love doing.

4. What knowledge do you already have about this topic? What are your main questions about this topic? What are you most curious about?
I don’t know much other than people are either happy their job and really enjoy waking up every morning, and then there are people who really dread getting out of bed to o to work. My main question would be exactly how many people are happy with their job. It’d be interesting to see why people choose jobs that don’t make them happy.

5. Within what scholarly discipline (such as history, biology, psychology) do you expect to do most of your research? How does this discipline approach or study this topic?
I think I would research more on psychology, but might also look into the history of people being happy with their jobs.

6. How could you research this topic outside the library (for example, through interviews and/or observations)?
I could interview people who work on campus and see if they enjoy their jobs, also around my community if they enjoy what they do. Take a survey of how many people are really happy going to work.