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#69346 Psychology EE Help: Video games

Posted Green on May 18, 2010 - 16:55

Your research question is great. To make you more confident about it, I've asked my teacher- she thinks its a good topic.

What you could look into is specifying your research question as "To what extent does video games have an effect on behavioral growth?".
I think you could replace "behavioral growth" with "social growth" if you want to, but your research question is good the way it is.
The topic not broad, in fact it allows you to explore all the aspects of social behavior and how it can be affected by video games. It should reasonably take up 4,000 words.
Of course there will be more negative aspects than positive, but that doesn't mean you should focus your essay entirely on the negative or positive aspect. Definitely go for both.

As long as your essay is purely based on psychology and not strategies of video games, its purely scientific.

#61429 World Lit 1 help!

Posted sweetnsimple786 on Jan 13, 2010 - 04:31

There might be a way to pull that off successfully, but I wouldn't want to try. Usually what happens is you'll start summarizing in the body paragraphs when you should not and/or you'll have short, choppy paragraphs. Instead, try to make one [or two] paragraph[s] about each point with both books intertwined. You'll need to use lots of transitions, but then you'll have linked the two texts together intimately. You can have two paragraphs for a point if there's a natural break in what you're trying to say. The natural break shouldn't be a switch between works but rather... well let me give you a made up example.

"Women have no power and are looked down upon"
So one paragraph could talk about how they are treated physically and the lack of power from a material and lawful aspect. Then another paragraph could look at it from a psychological aspect. And I haven't read your works, so I doubt this applies to you perfectly. So with the two paragraphs, you're still mentioning both works in each one... you're just shifting focus a little bit.

So have the intro and conclusion and 1-2 body paragraphs for each of your points. Take your word limit into account as well. Unless you're an extremely concise person, 8 body paragraphs would probably cost you a lot.

#61388 World Lit 1 help!

Posted IBhelp on Jan 12, 2010 - 13:27

yup, definately thats a good topic. i think you have good points to discuss and dont forget that you support you points by giving enough of quotations. not too many but atleast 2-3 and also while wrting keep mind the structure in which you are goin to write your world lit.

structure that you may want to follow:
Plan A: Use Plan A if you have many small similarities and/or differences. After your introduction, say everything you want to say about the first work or character, and then go on in the second half of the essay to say everything about the second work or character, comparing or contrasting each item in the second with the same item in the first. In this format, all the comparing or contrasting, except for the statement of your main point, which you may want to put in the beginning, goes on in the SECOND HALF of the piece.

Plan B: Use Plan B if you have only a few, larger similarities or differences. After your introduction, in the next paragraph discuss one similarity or difference in BOTH works or characters, and then move on in the next paragraph to the second similarity or difference in both, then the third, and so forth, until you're done. If you are doing both similarities and differences, juggle them on scrap paper so that in each part you put the less important first ("X and Y are both alike in their social positions . . ."), followed by the more important ("but X is much more aware of the dangers of his position than is Y"). In this format, the comparing or contrasting goes on in EACH of the middle parts.

sorry its too long bt this will definately help you in scoring higher grade

#61387 World Lit 1 help!

Posted sweetnsimple786 on Jan 12, 2010 - 13:09

Yeah, that's a logical and organized approach. I haven't read your works, but good job.

Umm I'd do 1-2 per book. 3-4 per point [yeah, the math doesn't completely add up, but you want at least 3 quotations] If you have more words left in the word count, I'd go back and add another example.

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