Playing Catch-Up

Sorry everyone for seriously lacking in my blogging. Here is the status of my research paper.

I began my paper by explaining homelessness in very general, vague terms. I tried exploring many different facets of homelessness in general, which turned out to be sort of disorganized. I dug into some more research and expanded my resources beyond the basic "all about homelessness" style of books I checked out from the library. I found a lot of different articles and research studies that centered on a particular idea or topic such as sexual exploitation among homeless youth. I found these articles to be EXTREMELY helpful in developing a more structured paper. I was really interested in the stories and articles I was reading and ended up writing a bigger chunk than I had expected to write on youth homelessness. The information I found opened up new things to explore such as personal accounts of youth homelessness and human trafficking.

As for now, I'm going to keep the first disorganized section of my paper. While wrapping up my paper, I'll probably reorganize my paper by cutting and pasting chunks of information, adding or deleting transitional information. I think once I have the entire paper written, it will be easier to move things around to shape the paper as a whole.