One of the bigger troubles I had while writing my research paper was understanding the difference between disproving people’s opinions and understanding them. When initially writing my paper on the conversation of diversity, I tried to disprove other people’s opinions about how campuses are not diverse in the US today.
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I soon realized that this was more difficult then I expected as I would have to disprove every point that the “opposition” expressed in order to fully prove my point as correct. After a bit of thought, I realized that it would be easier to express my point rather than prove it.
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In order to do this, I would have to just express my views and express the oppositions views to tell the conversation. This was much easier to do than actually trying to prove a point and the paper ended up flowing together a lot better as a whole. When trying to understand the other peoples opinions, giving a debate on the topic became a lot easier and I was able to express my personal opinions in a more relaxed way as well. It became more of a conversation rather than an argument which is what the paper was supposed to be like in the first place.