McDaniel1
Colbi McDaniel
Eng. 1020 sec 006
Amy Latawiec
10/27/15
Homework 8
For this research paper I would have to say that finding my topic was kind of easy to find.
When I came into class on Monday I came in prepared to talk about project 3 and what the
assignment would be about. One my professor explained what we had to do for this paper, in the
back of my mind I was trying to figure out what topic am I interested in that would have a lot of
research behind it? So I sat for a few minutes and stared brainstorming. I jotted down a few
topics that would be “fun” to write about like “animals”, “Halloween”, “Rollercoasters”, and
“adrenaline”. One I wrote these ideas down I stared trying to find sub-topics that were associated
with the topics I chose. Once I wrote down a few sub-topics, I didn’t feel confident in the topics I
chose. As I was sitting there puzzled on what to talk about, one of my classmates asked me what
I was going to write about, and I told him wasn’t sure yet; then he asked “why don’t you talk
about natural hair?” when he said that I thought it was kind of stupid like what would I say about
natural hair? But the more I thought about it I could research a lot about natural hair, so I wrote
down on my brainstorming list. As soon as I wrote down the topic I thought of a really good
topic that I was highly interested in and that would be really good to research. Although I
thought the topic was kind of stupid at first, I thought I could talk about colorism in the African
American (black) community. This topic has always caught my attention so I thought it would fit
perfect for me and I could include a talk about natural hair inside my research paper.
Now that I know what my official topic is I plan to do a lot of research. I think my two
main research methods are going to include Google/scholars, and interviews. With
Google/scholars I plan to look up “colorism in the black community” and “colorism on social
media”. I plan to read different articles and use the information I find to support my argument. In
addition I plan to interview people of color and ask their views on “light skinned”, dark
skinned”, and “medium skinned” men and women in the black community. With these strategies
I hope to find out a lot of information, learn a lot from a personal point of view, and teach my
audience something new on a controversial trending topic.