Research Proposal I chose drugs for my topic of my first research paper. I decided that it was to broad of a topic so I broke it down to just one of many drugs, marijuana. I want to find out how it controls people’s lives and how it changes or controls the way they think. The group that I plan to target was college students but considering I attend IUP, I decided to just focus my research on IUP students. I would like to find out many different things about marijuana, except I haven’t narrowed any of them down to exactly what I will put into my research paper. First I would like to find out how many students actually smoke marijuana to how many that do not, and if not do they do any other kinds of drugs.
I want to know if more males or females smoke it, when they started, how they get it, and how they get the money to keep it up. I also want to look into if people smoke it everyday, just once in a while, or just at social functions such as parties. Some other factors I would like to explore would be if the smoker maintains the same life as before they did the drug. Lastly, I would like to if there are any short and / or long term effects from doing the drug. For my primary research I will be making a survey and handing it out to many different IUP students around campus. I will also be observing people actually smoking marijuana and interviewing one or two marijuana users.
Research Paper Internet Students Easier
The internet is a great invention because it makes things a great deal easier for us nowadays. It is also helpful in many ways, especially, in the way of convenience. Rather than go somewhere to pay your bills, you can just do it online with a credit card. You can also check your bank statements and find out where you stand financially. These are example of good ways that the internet helps out in ...
I feel that by distributing a survey to students it will give me answers to most of my questions. The survey will not require the students name so I feel that most of them will tell the truth, except for few. By observing people actually smoking it, I will learn what is involved, and I can ask many different questions in helping my research. I feel that there is only a couple limitations such as people will lie on the survey, they may feel uncomfortable with someone taking notes on them smoking the drug, and I might not be able to give the survey out to the right students that take part in the use of the drug. I feel that I can overcome one of the limitations and give out the survey on different days, make out different questions if I don’t get the results that I expect and also make more surveys to cover most of the IUP population. I feel that the way I am approaching my topic is the best way and I will get exceptionally results to make my research paper better..
