Research blog 1

I have decided to narrow down my research to a specific hich school; this being La Salle high school. Before I start my research however, I will have to get permission from the school to interview students and teachers. I decided to narrow it down to one school because to research this topic is very broad, and there are so many areas to cover; also it is hard to gain permission from schools to gather information from their students. As a coach at this school, I think I can gather the appropriate information needed. The information that I will be needing from this specific school, is from students, teachers, and coaches. I am trying to make this topic as unbiased as possible by interviewing and surveying as many people as possible; not only those directly associated with student athletes who would have a bias on the issue.

Research Topic Proposal

For my research topic I would like to answer the question: Are student athletes typically less successful in academics than those students who do not participate in any athletics? It is a common belief that student athletes are “dumb,” and do not excel academically. However, I do not believe that this is true and would like to research this topic further to see if this assumption is true or not. In order to research this topic, I have chosen to limit this to high school students, and therefore use a high school that I work at to provide for my research. I will be able to interview both student athletes and students who are not involved in athletics, and also teachers. I will also hopefully be able to compare the grades of those students as well.

Nelson Reaction

The academic research paper is too programmed. it is making all students conform to a certain way of writing. Students are so accustommed to this general scheme of a reasearch paper that many are not even using their own ideas and thoughts to produce their work. Since the paper has to follow certain guidelines and/or rules as far as what to write, how to write, and and the "steps" that everyone wants to meet the minimum requirements and just finish it instead of getting into the actual point of the research paper, which is to research and to learn.