eh, its still a research paper.

I don’t remember writing too many research papers in high school. There were a few here and there for English, and maybe a couple for history. I remember writing one for my freshman English class on the Salem Witch Trials. I got to pick the topic on that occasion and really got into the paper. Some of the accusations that went down in the Puritan era were insane. It was really interesting to write about. I actually ended up writing another one about the trials my junior year. It was a sort of combo of a literary analysis and a research paper. We were reading “The Crucible” at the time so I didn’t get much of a choice on the topic, but it definitely helped to have written that paper freshman year. I wrote three last semester in my Art History class. I wrote one on Botticelli, another on Bosch, and the final one on Monet. I had some interest in writing these. The problem was that there was a very specific topic we had to write about, even though we got to chose the piece that we wrote on. I’m on the fence about research papers. Either I like the topic or I don’t. Either I like writing about it or I don’t. And the longer I write the paper it usually doesn’t change my mind.

Hey Jennifer... did you enjoy writing research papers in college/high school, or did you prefer creative writing?