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Low-stakes: Exploration of Research Topics
See the list below of numerous potential research topics you may choose to pursue for the main assignments this quarter. Examine them and then answer the questions below as best you can. This a low-stakes exercise meant to get you thinking about your research interests and processes. These interests almost surely will change and evolve as the quarter progresses.
TOP 3 TOPIC CHOICES:
Describe your top three choices for your 39C research and explain the relevance of each topic to Evicted. What is your favorite topic and what interests you about this topic? What obstacles do you think you might face in doing research on that topic?
RESEARCH YOU'VE COMPLETED SO FAR:
Describe the kind of research you've done in order to search for a 39C topic, making sure to distinguish between online research and in-person library research. (Note: It is perfectly OK if you have not done much research on topics at this point.) What kinds of researchable questions do you have in mind regarding your potential topics?
INTERESTS YOU WOULD LIKE TO EXPLORE IN RELATION TO 39C:
Give two examples of topics you'd like to study in 39C that you feel are only tangentially related to Evicted, especially in the case that you are very eager to study a tangentially related topic.
HOW DO YOU PICTURE THE THREE MAIN ASSIGNMENTS IN 39C IN RELATION TO YOUR RESEARCH?
Read the prompt for the Historical Conversations Project. List 3 challenges you picture facing as you progress through the stages of writing and research in 39C. How do you plan to face these challenges?
TOUCHING BASE ON YOUR CONFIDENCE ABOUT WRITING AND RESEARCH:
Write a few sentences about your confidence in yourself as a writer and researcher, and then write a question for your instructor based on your feelings of confidence or lack of confidence and what kind of guidance you would like to receive.
Writing 39C: Potential Research Topics*
- Eviction and poverty
- Homelessness and women
- Affordable housing
- Housing and segregation
- Fair Housing Act
- Race and housing
- Federal housing programs
- Public assistance
- Vouchers
- Housing and health
- Children and eviction
- Moving
- Working poor
- Waiting and poverty
- Suburbs
- Housing and criminality
- Scarcity
- Suburban blight
- Eviction and mental illness
- Housing laws in USA
- Domestic violence/violence against women
- Protest/ political movements
- Trailer parks
- Housing and technology
- Roads and city planning
*Keep in mind that you certainly aren’t limited to any one of these and that ALL of these are generalized and will require a great deal more narrowing of the focus before you begin your project. Whatever you choose, it should relate to a specific contemporary event/policy/law/movement, etc.
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Three Topic Choices for 39C
The top three chosen topics for research that have a direct correlation with
Matthew Desmond’s Evicted are eviction and poverty, affordable housing and race & housing.
The book is a reflection of the status quo in America on matters housing, at least, as far as the
2008 financial crisis is concerned. Indeed, it is also a reflection of the socio-economic terrain of
America, and the topics chosen are major issues facing Americans today. Numerous characters
are facing eviction in the book, for different reasons, so many people in the book are not able to
access affordable housing, for various reasons and race, especially in residential areas is explored
in the story (Pam & Ned are a colored couple living in a predominant...