First Draft of Reseach Paper

This week's blog is about the first rough draft of my research paper on gambling. It is going very well and I am confident about how the paper will turn out. I think that I have gotten off to a good start on writing the first five pages. There are several things that are going well concerning my paper. I think that I have found sources that support the points that I am making in my paper. Many of my sources are going to be used in the body paragraphs of my paper. The research paper outline that I wrote about gambling was a big help in starting my paper. It gave me a good outline on what my paper was going to look like. I think that I have a strong introduction that introduces my topic well. I have written a few of the body paragraphs for the paper that are about the pros and cons of gambling. These body paragraphs will help the audience of my paper understand the concepts that I am presenting in my paper. I have not written a conclusion for my paper yet because I have not finished the body paragraphs. I also need to update my annotated bibliography because I have found several more sources. I have been reading all of these sources so that I can include them in my paper. I am also working on the rest of my body paragraphs. I plan on working on this paper this weekend. I am going to go through my sources and figuring out where they belong in my paper. I am going to spend a great deal of time on this paper. I need to revise my paper and also my annotated bibliography. I have learned many things in the process of writing this paper.

Narrowed topic, audience, thesis statement, organization

The first part of this blog is about the topic of my research paper. I have been narrowing my topic the last couple of weeks. I am researching gambling. More specifically I am researching the pros and cons of gambling. I think that this topic is narrow enough for my research paper. I want to focus on the positive and negative effects that come from gambling. I have been researching gambling and in many of the sources that I have come across, these sources discuss the pros and cons of having gambling and casinos in certain communities. My audience for this paper would be people that are interested in finding out more information about gambling. Many people will be able to relate to this topic because it is a controversial topic that many people are concerned about. The audience will be interested in finding out the positive and negative effects that come from gambling and casinos. The next part of this blog is going to be about my tentative thesis statement for my research paper on gambling. I have not thought too much about what my thesis statement will be, but I know that I want to include something about the positive and negative effects of gambling on communities. My thesis statement would start out by saying that gambling is a controversial topic that has many positive and negative effects on communities. I am working on making a better, stronger thesis statement for my paper. As for the organization of my paper, I briefly discussed this in my last blog two weeks ago. I will have a strong introduction paragraph introducing my topic followed by several body paragraphs that support my thesis statement. I would then end my paper with a conclusion that summarizes the points made in the paper. I am working on writing this paper.

Organizaton

This week's blog is about the organization patter that the research paper will follow. I have not thought much about how my paper will be organized, but it would be a good idea to come up with an outline that lays out the organization of the paper. I will follow the format of having a introduction, body paragraphs and a conclusion. The body paragraphs will be supported by evidence that I have found in my sources that I have found on the topic. I would start out with an introduction paragraph that introduces the topic of gambling. I will start out with a broad introduction that narrows it down to the topic of my paper which includes the pros and cons of gambling. This introduction paragraph will get my audiences attention and will also show why they should care about my topic of gambling. I have been doing research on the pros and cons and I would organize my paper to include the two. Many sources also have focused on the psychology of gambling and the ethics of gambling. I would discuss in detail the positive effects that gambling has on people and communities and also the negative effects that gambling and casinos will have on the people and communities. The pros and cons of gambling will be the main part of the body paragraphs in the paper. I have found many articles that look at the topic of gambling and what the effects of a casino have on the people in the community. I will end the paper with a strong conclusion. I am planning on this paper being an informative paper that will display the pros and cons of gambling to my audience. I am continuing to research the subject and hope to get some work done over spring break on my research paper.