Assignment One: Unit Three

My beginning idea for a topic is how writers have had an impact on society. Some questions of mine related to the topic are: how have opinions of writers impacted widespread belief and agreement?, what have writers been defined as in society?, do current writers have as much impact on society as past writers?, what have been some of the biggest contributions writers have given to society?, how respected are writers in society respected compared to the writers of the past?, etc. When searching in the catalog I first typed in society under any field, then limited results to those available, under location I marked reference, for the material type I selected any, and english for the language. For searching the internet I narrowed my search by typing in names of specific authors I was interested in using within the research topic, and kept websites to websites ending in .org to limit links to useless information and untrustworthy sites. The angle I chose to come at to answer my topic from is in what ways have authors had an influential impact on society? My two broader topics are how writing has nfluenced society, and what role does writing play in society. My two narrower topics are what specific genre in leterature tends to have the most impact on society, and what few authors have had a great impact on society. Two questions that could enrich my topic are what are the jobs of authors in society, and how are most authors of literature viewd as in society. Throughout society's time there have been impacts on society from various different authors of varying genres, society in a way was influenced greatly by authors especially in past times. I'd say that my topic for them most part is something really interesting, and has become more complex than the original. I blelieve that if I were to continue with this process I could make my topic much more complex. This process has worked very well for me in preparaing me for having subject matter to discuss more fully. I wouldn't change anything about this process.