Post 4

So after the presentation, I realized that I actually knew more than I had initially thought. This made me more comfortable with the topic I had finally settled on. Like I said in the presentation, I had originally picked a topic that had no information or research out there at all. This topic was how accents identify us and effect the interactions that we have with one another. So I expanded the topic to dialect as a whole, and then drifted to language barriers. In the formal research I found that much of it was about the health care system. After explaining this to the class, I then proceeded to ask how I could make an argument out of it. The class response was that the topic sounds like a good one, and likely there would be lots of research on it. They suggested that the argument could be on how to change the issue of the language barrier in the health care system. Many other ideas came up, but this one sounded the most promising. Over all, the presentation went well. I was terrified that I would talk for about half a minute and then start babbling along for the next two. I was also a little concerned about how to make this into an argumentative paper. The class definitely helped in this regard and I now have an idea of where to go.