My past experiences with research writing in school have been limited. I've only done four research papers, starting from my high school junior year to currently. My first research paper was about teenagers needing more sleep, and it was pretty decent. My second research paper was in the last two and a half months of my high school senior year, due before the last two weeks of May because those two weeks were for seniors to do community volunteering. Our research paper topics were based on classic literature books my English teacher chose. It was okay, I could've done better on it if there was more time and we could choose our topics. My third and fourth research papers were during my last semester at a different college. My third research paper was on the differences of an academic paper and a magazine/newspaper article. I chose to compare an article that highlighted the main points of noise pollution on fish bio-acoustics that came from an academic paper. It didn't do so well because I had trouble narrowing down my topic and I didn't have a lot of time to work on it due to the heavy course-load of my other classes. My fourth research paper was a discourse community ethnography. I went to a local CVS near my house and interviewed them on how they trained their new employees. It was decent at the beginning, but got worse during the middle and end of the paper.
My research project's topic is on the Coronavirus and its impact on the Asian/Asian-American population, specifically the Chinese/Chinese-American population. This topic matters because of its roots in American History and is a persistent problem in today's diverse society. The Coronavirus impacted the world, but it negatively impacted anyone of Asian descent racially. America's fear or intolerance of Chinese immigrants, sinophobia, began on May 6, 1882 when the twenty-first President of the United States, Chester A. Arthur, signed the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. The act's main purpose was to limit the amount of Chinese immigrants in America. My research question is how the Coronavirus revealed past intolerance towards the Chinese population and impacted Asians as well as its effects on future generations, answered in an op-ed. My audience will be the general world population because it is a current topic and can be used as a future reference on handling Asian immigrant-related issues.