About Academic Essays

In English class today, we shared our academic essay topics with each other and was taught about “good” topics. Through the google document we are sharing as a class, everyone filled up the table with information about their research category, detailed topic, and stance. Although I had thought of several topics I felt passionate about and wanted to write about, I had to finally narrow it down to one. My final decision ended up being the ethics of altzheimers disease care, which crosses over many fields. Those are medical, ethics, family, and also a bit of religion. Due to the lack of information and knowledge, I wasn’t sure about my position on the topic. Mr. Paterson explained to us that this is totally normal. I was glad to hear this because in a previous research I’ve done, I changed my initial opinion after getting to knowing more. For this reason, I left the space blank, but I’m planning to learn more topic when I can. Also, our teacher went a little more into depth about this. Apparently, research topics can be categorized into two kinds, brain and heart. While an academic essay on a “brain topic” would involve more data and information, an academic essay about a “heart topic” is rather based off of your way of thinking. This means that writing about a brain topic is a bit easier than a heart topic, since it takes a lot to persuade others who have different opinions. When the research paper is on a heart topic, the writer’s personal experiences and values come into play, as well as for anyone reading it. This makes it relatively difficult to argue and price your point. Heart topics are mostly made up of sensitive things such as abortion, the death penalty, and animal testing. I learned that both brain and heart topics really make for a good academic essay.