Part I: Exploration
1. Identify the issue or problem that you plan to focus on in your research project.
I plan to focus on the unreported killings in the urban community.
2. What is your personal connection to and interest in this topic?
My personal connection to this topic is that I lived in the Englewood neighborhood and always hear or see things happened but is never reported on the news.
3. What opinions do you already hold about this topic?
I feel that the media don’t think the killings aren’t newsworthy because everybody heard it before. Its like “old news”. So they focus their attention on something else like Britney Spears instead of more important factors.
4. What knowledge do you already have about this topic. What are your main
questions about this topic? What are you most curious about?
I know and heard a lot of shootings by my house that are never reported. My main question is why do the media feel that stuff like this isn’t worthy of their time.
6. Within what scholarly discipline (such as history, biology, psychology) do you expect to do most of your research? How does this discipline approach or study this topic?
I don’t have a clue but I am willing to find out.
7. How could you research this topic outside the library (for example, through interviews and/or observations)?
Of course you can. I can interview a lot of people to help me out and give me stories, feedback, and personal accounts of killings or shootings they heard or saw that never got reported.
Part II: Focusing Write an initial claim, or an open-ended question, to guide your research on this topic. Make it specific but exploratory. Remember that a good claim opens up an area of inquiry about a topic; a claim should invite evidence, support, and debate.
Why do the media disregard killings in the poorer, urban communities as not "newsworthy"?
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The media has a special attention or special audience to share with. On speaking of unique area like "Englewood Neighborhood", it may lead to the media reporter's phobia in the psychology speaking. There will be additional info for my career. There will be a class called Urban Studies: the civilization of the urban cities may help many questions you have especially with the businesses and sociology view.
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