Finding Topic for Research Paper

Finding topic for research paper is harder than what I think. It’s not that easy compared to position paper. I think it’s because this time, we need to compare two texts. Therefore, our focus will be wider. However, for this assignment we can also put our references that we use in order to complete this assignment. Therefore, it helps to make this assignment longer and KUKUH. Actually, I have been thinking about the topic all the time but I still cannot find the suitable one. I asked a few of my friends to see what story they have chosen. Some of them did Educating Rita and Pygmalion, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, Kate Chopin’s short stories, and many more.

For this assignment, I will be supervised by Dr. Nooreen Noordin. Before the break, she had a meeting with us to see our progress. After the meeting, I had a quite clear picture about some of her requirements; we can focus on one topic if we want as long as we make a deep research about it and the step to come out with a research paper is similar to position paper. The first thing that we must do is to write a thesis statement that will sum up everything about our research. Up to this point, I still haven’t chosen my topic because I am torn between these two poets; Wilfred Owen and William Blake. Well, Wilfred Owen is one of my choices because he was known as war poets. All his poems deal with issues of war. His poems are special and different from other poets because he wrote these poems based on his experiences going to war. So, this is why his poems are all about the futility of war and even though his choice of words is quite difficult to understand sometimes, it motivates me to keep on reading to get the underlying messages. On the contrary, I’m also interested to do a research on William Blake regarding his poem, “The Chimney Sweeper”. This poem deals with issue of child labour which is also attracts my attention. I hope by the end of this week, I can make a decision on which story should I go for.