Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Topic Proposal
For my topic, I decided to choose childhood obesity. I decided to choose this topic because I would like to find out how we can prevent and treat this issue. There are many different arguments I have read about already about on how to treat and prevent this issue. Many people have different opinions about this topic and I would like to do more research to see who is right and who is wrong. They argue about how much a child should weigh while growing up, and when it becomes obesity and not just a “big child.” I would also like to do some research about how different exercises help and which ones do not help. For example, does the Wii Fit really work for children or is it just another video game for children and their parents to play together. I am interested in this topic because I have two nephews and a niece. My one nephew is seven years old and I am concerned about his weight. By doing research on this topic I feel as if I could help him while he is growing up and, to see if my sister is taking the right steps to help him as well. Even though I do not know much about this topic in detail, I know some of the main components to childhood obesity. I choose this topic so I could learn more about how to help the youth and to learn about the different prevention programs there is to help the children. When I write this paper, I will be open to new suggestions to the different ways to prevent and to treat this issue. I have not chosen one side of this topic to write about, I would like to know all the different sides of the topic before I write the essay just so I can understand why they view childhood obesity in that specific way.
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I think by narrowing down your topic and by choosing specifics you would have a better time writing this paper. It seems like a informative paper on childhood obesity, by specifying it hopefully you could prevent that. You could argue the most beneficial method for losing weight in children, or something similar. I think this could be a very interesting topic for discussion. Good luck.
ReplyDeleteI think this is a good topic for your research paper because there are many different things that will contribute to it, like methods to prevent it, what weight a child has to be at to be considered "obese", and different ways to solve the issue if the damage has already been done. I agree with Alexis that you should narrow it down to one method or one side of the argument of the definition of childhood obesity but with all the different ways you could go with it, I think this will turn into a really good paper.
ReplyDeleteI think that childhood obesity is a great topic. I think it is a little broad in the sense that you haven't decided your thesis yet. Once you define what question it is you hope to answer, I'm sure you'll do fine. I think you can definitely write two pages on this topic. Just remember to stick to the original question and provide answers to it. I think you are doing a great job at not taking sides until you read all the research out there. If you follow through with this method of research and choosing a side in this matter, I think you will do great. I can't think of any logical fallacies that will affect your topic, but be sure to look out for them. Great Start!
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