Osura's+Research+Project

= = __**RESEARCH PROJECT 2012 - MR STREET**__ // **Research Program B**: For students who intend their Research Project to contribute to their Tertiary Entrance Rank (TER). Evidence of learning must be presented in written form to meet the common written assessment component. //

//Journal entries://
//Week 1://

//This week Monday was the first day for year 12 Research project. Mr Street is our teacher and he was explaining and giving us brief information about research project and what will happen throughout the year. He was also talking about how SACE is also taking part on this research project throughout the year. As he was explaining about the course, he showed us some examples of the Research Projects during past years. The idea of that was to help us to come up with the perfect topic that interests me and keep me motivated on my topic throughout this year.//

//As far as it went with choosing the topic this week, I was not able to come up with the perfect topic that will interest me the most. but I still came up with some possibilities that will lead to the topic that I will end up doing. yet I was still confused about the topic which I'm going to choose with all the possibilities. Mr Street gave us a sheet which enabled us to think more widely about the topics and guiding questions and what we are really interested in.//

//Week 2://

Monday's lesson Mr Street were again trying to help everyone as possible to find a suitable topic for their research project. By this time of the week, I was still struggling to find a suitable topic for myself. I tried to look through the internet to see what would interest me, but I had no luck at all finding any topic. Me and Cheri was talking about each others interests to get a rough idea of what topic I would research on, and then I had a better interest on my countries history. I then started looking up for some articles on Sri Lankan history on the internet.

//Week 3://

As by this week most of the students had their topic planned out, therefore Mr Street talked about writing up the Research proposal and what categories to include in it. By thursday I started doing my Proposal as I came up with the perfect topic. I came with the question that I will be seeking through and my guiding questions that will help me to do a successful research.


 * My Question was:**
 * Why has the civil war in Sri Lanka lasted for over 30 years?**

My Guiding questions was:

-What is the real reason for starting this war?
//Week 4://

During the weekend I completed my Research proposal and handed it up to Mr Street to have a look and give me a feedback about it. During this week I found couple of articles that relates to my question. I did some analysing on those articles and noted down some dot points that will be valuable for my research. On Thursday I managed to find few more articles, and I searched for other articles with the same title to see if I got the write information by comparing one article with another.

//Week 5:// During this week, I managed to find some more guiding questions that will support me in my research.