Words for Research Project

Words & Phrases

This semester, I have been taking Writing 201, College Writing II. This particular class, is focussing on research writing. We were all to pick a research topic that would be found in our program’s career field. Everyone had stuff like sports management, criminal science or sociology, so they picked research topics such as should all college athletes be paid? There is a friend of mine, who is working towards a degree in Math Education and she is going to focus on CORE curriculum.

I, on the other hand, am the only English major in the class. For days, I had poured into Google results, looking for something that someone with an English degree would find worth writing and researching. All the results kept coming up with stuff for English, or Education and then even just doing a Literature Review; I would have happily written a literature review. But sadly, it had to be an academic based research project. I happily chose book banning.  

And then I ran into a different problem: finding results that advocate for banning of books. But that’s another story.

As the class was becoming familiar with APA citation and other rhetoric skills that one needs to write a successful research project, we wrote many exercises that slowly has built on top of each other. With each different assignment, we have had to write analyses to our sources, and I have found that everything has been repeating. And I got tired of using the same few words when talking about and reporting and summarizing the sources information. It wasn’t until a couple nights ago, I had the idea to start writing all the different phrases I try my best to break off to instead of using the phrases supplies, and provides, it was really pissing me offf- which you all can see, because of the word choice I just used.

But! For those of you who start swimming in a pool of words that have been overused within your work, here are the words and phrases that I jotted down the other night as I was writing one of my critical reads turned annotation for my bibliography:

Agitate-and variations
Although & Therefore
Approach-and variations
Bias
Broad- in terms of views and perspective
But not limited to…
Characteristic-and variations
Claim-and variations
Concern-and variations
Defend-and variations
Definitive
Describe-and variations
Direct- and variations
Disgruntle-and variations
Explain-and variations
Express-and variations
Glance-and variations
Goal
However
Include-and variations
Including…
Mindset
Narrow- in terms of views and perspective
Object-and variations
Opinion
Partial (one’s opinion leans towards: I am partial to Hemingway's work compared to Plath’s work)
Passion-and variations
Perspective
Point of View
Progress-and variations (progression & progressed)
Provide-and variations
Regress- and variations
Restriction
Show-and variations
Showcase-and variations
Stance
Supply-and variations
Unbias
Variable-and variations (If you are arguing banned books, first you need to define banned vs. challenged, and explain the reasons for banning/challenging books in detail. The variables are the reasons and the words banning and challenging.)
Within my research...