I have been working on this Reasearch Paper for the past three days. My author is John Gay who wrote the story "The Beggar's Opera." The first two days I spent working on a hopeless topic. My original thesis was about John Gay being more upbeat in his early works but became more critical in his later. I had massive amounts of research but nothing to write about. I changed my topic to John Gay's obsession with sex... but I won't go into that so I can save it for my presentation.
I'm posting now to see if I can get an idea of what other's are doing so I know if my topic didn't venture too far off.
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My topic was completely off beat when I first started. I found that my topic was far too broad and ended up reducing it to simply what made my author, John Gower, into the write he was. His political/moral/background views that made him the author and person he was. I chose to look into his friends Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langlad, just to see if they had anything to do with his works. It was a little tedious trying to narrow down, but fun..I think I like your idea..especially if "The Beggar's Opera" is going to be a main piece..I think we all learned things were primarily sex in that.
ReplyDeleteI feel like I completely turned against what my topic originally was. At first, I was going to write about how Sir Francis Bacon was a Renaissance man and how it affected his life, but then after some research I decided that he wasn't technically a Renaissance man and instead wrote about the difference between a "Renaissance man" and a "polymath" in regards to Bacon.
ReplyDelete...I really did not do well with either topic.
I ended up writing about the topic I originally chose, which was about Mary Wroth being an early example of a feminist author. While doing my research, I found a lot of information, and learned that not only did her writing express feminism, but many aspects of her personal life did, as well. I ended up being able to expand on my original topic, and I think it turned out well. Hopefully yours did, too!
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