Week 2

Hi Everyone!
I hope you are all having another great week. This week has been significant for me because after working more on the methods section of my original research question, “The Top 3 Components of Social Media that cause Depression and Anxiety in Adolescents”, I realized that this research question is not as feasible as I thought it would be. I was having trouble finding sources and identifying “components” and I knew I wanted to do research relating to nutrition and health in some way. After talking to a few people, I decided to change my research question. I will now be doing research on “The Effect Soy Products have on the Risk of Breast Cancer in Women”, either over the age of 50 or in Asian women (still deciding). I gravitated towards this topic heavily because breast cancer is a very personal disease for me and my family. I have already been able to find several sources to start my research and am looking forward to this new topic.

Now that I have changed my research question, there are a lot of changes that need to be made to my progress already. This week, I worked on writing a new methods draft and got started on my research presentation. I spent a lot of time researching questions and examining other research papers, in order to narrow my own. In class, we worked on key aspects of research presentations and narrowed our research questions as well. Next week, I hope to begin formulating the sources that I will be using to back up my hypothesis and work on the details of my research. I am hopeful about this new research question, and look forward to the progress I will make.

Until then, have a great weekend!