Reasearch Paper Help

ghosstt · Post by **ghosstt** » Mon May 14, 2007 4:50 pm

im writing a research paper for school. i really want to do it on video games, but cant think of a good topic. i wanted to do common misconceptions about VG's but the teacher said it was to broad a topic..

Post by **gannon** » Mon May 14, 2007 5:56 pm

How in depth must it be? A good topic is the correlation between violence in media and violence in people/youth

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Mon May 14, 2007 6:03 pm

Put simply: If violence in video games has an effect on violence in real life.

You can do violence in music too.

Or how video games expand minds and give better hand-eye coordination and the likes.

lifeisbetterwithketchup · Mon May 14, 2007 6:17 pm

Kurt_ wrote: Or how video games expand minds and give better hand-eye coordination and the likes.

Piano + video games = damn good hand-eye coordination.

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Mon May 14, 2007 6:24 pm

piano also helps you with math somehow!

Post by **Sparkfist** » Tue May 15, 2007 7:48 am

I did one showing how the claims about video games cause violence is false. It's not really that hard of one, I used mostly government statistics about school shootings, school fights and teen/young adult violence in general. I used one article that someone wrote as the backbone of mine, it was essencally the same, only difference is that I used most of his sources.

Do a google search and you should fine it. I think it was even discussed on the forums here.

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Tue May 15, 2007 3:20 pm

I used one article that someone wrote as the backbone of mine, it was essencally the same, only difference is that I used most of his sources.

How is that a difference?

johnbjuice · Post by **johnbjuice** » Tue May 15, 2007 4:23 pm

A good topic is the artistic value of video games. Very controversial and interesting. Look up indie games, as they often have more artisticness (wow...um...yeah that's a word!) in them. I did a speech about this for oral comp. 2 years ago.

PM me! (If you need info)

- Juice

ghosstt · Post by **ghosstt** » Tue May 15, 2007 4:38 pm

well, i went away from the game thing altogether. since im a motorhead at heart (right next to the gaming portion) i did how do hybrid cars help cut down on pollution in the air

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Tue May 15, 2007 5:05 pm

You're serious?

Why not do why pooping makes you less constipated?

Do something less TOTALLY OBVIOUS!

Like how aging makes you older!

ghosstt · Post by **ghosstt** » Tue May 15, 2007 5:29 pm

the paper is due monday, and its kinda an easy topic, which i kno a lot about, so its pretty good.

Post by **Sparkfist** » Tue May 15, 2007 5:59 pm

Kurt_ wrote:
I used one article that someone wrote as the backbone of mine, it was essencally the same, only difference is that I used most of his sources.
How is that a difference?

Ok sorry, I used my own words.