Social Action Research Thoughts 1

Reading and writing in my personal life is huge because with it I can communicate and learn. Without these processes, I would not be able to function very well in life. Academically, it is very important not only to read and write but to do it well. Grades aren't everything but I have to be able to read and learn to get through school. Other writings that I do outside of class include facebook messaging and texting. I don't like texting although women do.

The most difficult part of academic writing is getting your thoughts together for the introduction and then putting them down with satisfaction. That is the hardest part for me; once I get through that, academic writing is pretty easy for the most part. The area of writing that I really need to improve is with research and informative papers. Research, to me, is a hassle and always a terrible experience for me but the biggest problem is not being able to go in-depth into the research and subsequently going in-depth into my research paper.

I read non-fiction novels about crime and outlaws since I am very interested in those areas. It's no surprise that I am a criminal justice major I suppose. I don't think reading those kinds of books has facilitated anything important into my own writing. I believe that reading and writing are very connected, although with me it's not a very important connection because I do not facilitate personal readings into personal writings.

I have taken a course like this last semester where the whole research paper was in sections throughout the semester and I enjoyed it. I have experienced a lot of research so there is really nothing to assume but for this course I am assuming that I can do well since I did well in that similar course last semester.

I want to research about something in my field of study (criminal justice)...preferably enforcing gangs or something that has to do with classism and racism. I think that there are reasons why police officers enforce gangs harshly but I want to know when the police go too far and why they do that.

I think with that topic in mind, the majority of researching would be in the library and looking at online articles since there is history with police and racism, it shouldn't be too hard to find interesting articles and books on that subject.