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English 110 - Garcia: Topics & Research Questions

This guide provides students with tips and suggested resources for research in English 110 with Tino Garcia.

Topics

Broad Topic Ideas

  • Housing challenges (lack of housing, unaffordable housing, redlining, etc.)
  • Food Issues (food deserts or lack of access to healthy foods, food addictions, eating disorders, etc.)
  • Climate and environmental impact (drought, fires, flooding, pollution, lack of resources, lack of food, migration, etc.)
  • Education inequities (lack of access, lack of affordability, discrimination, oppressive systems or behaviors, etc.)
  • Social discrimination (based on race, class, gender, sexuality, religion, nationality, language, citizenship, etc.)
  • Substance abuse (drug and alcohol use and its effects)
  • Criminal justice system issues (policing, incarceration, and related challenges)
  • Financial or employment struggles (poverty, debt, unemployment, underemployment, unhealthy jobs, exploitative jobs, etc.)
  • Migration and/or immigration challenges (citizenship status, deportation, exile, cultural shock, displacement, poor working conditions, exploitation, etc.)
  • Imposter phenomenon (also called imposter syndrome)
  • Cultural identity and power loss (genocide, cultural genocide, forced acculturation, despair, drug use and abuse, etc.)
  • Language constraints (loss of language or restrictions on language use)
  • Mental health concerns (depression, anxiety, PTSD, suicidal ideation, self-harm, etc.)
  • Physical health issues (lack of or poor health care, unhealthy habits, diseases, disabilities, etc.)
  • Body image struggles (body dysmorphia, standards of beauty, etc.)
  • Abuse, violence, and trauma (physical, emotional, sexual, spiritual/religious, etc.)
  • War-related stigma (mental health issues, war-related trauma, isolation, substance use and abuse, lack of access to health care, etc.)
  • Political oppression (living under occupation; living under authoritarianism, capitalism, communism, etc.; being persecuted for identity of beliefs)
  • Topic you focused on in Writing Project 1
  • Topic you focused on in Writing Project 2

Research Questions

The video below offers some tips for creating good, open-ended research questions to help guide your research:

Winona State University - Research Questions from Joshua Vossler on Vimeo.

Identifying Your Research Purpose and Writing a Research Question

The following video explores how to consider the purpose of your research and in order to develop a useful research question (from off campus you will need to log in using your Pipeline username and password):