For our assignment today, we were to jot down a brief proposal that outlines our research plan.
It should include the following:
1.) Inquiry question:
What are the differences between photography as a hobby and photography used as therapy.
2.) Primary question:
Explore: What are additional questions that most interest you and might help you discover the answers to your research question? Why do people enjoy photography as a hobby? What disorders do they treat photography therapy with? Can people use photography both as a hobby and a therapy?
Argue: What theory or hypothesis about your topic are you testing? What is your tentative main claim or thesis? Photography can be used both as a hobby but also as a healing therapy.
3.) What, if any, prior beliefs, assumptions, preconceptions, ideas, or prejudices do you bring to this project? What personal experiences may have shaped the way you feel? Before you began developing working knowledge on the topic, what were you thinking about it? What are you thinking about it now?
I believe that photography can be used as a hobby. You can take pictures of family members, friends, nature, or of random things just for fun. When you are hanging out with family and friends and having fun you can be using photography as a hobby. Like some people who use drawing as a therapy, I believe taking pictures can be used as a therapy. It can be used to take one's mind off of the negative and it can also be used as a stress reliever. I know from experience that it can be used as a stress reliever. When I lost my dad from a heart attack a year and a half ago I used any time I could to get away and go outside to just take random pictures, mostly of nature. I find nature beautiful and therefore the pictures I was taking was helping keep my mind off the situation I was having to deal with. Before starting the topic, I was thinking about photography as hobby and photography as a therapy-two separate things. Now I am thinking about the two together as one.
Rebecca, I'm really starting to catch the vision you have for your research project as you share the personal experience that transformed photography from a hobby into a healing act. . I've never dabbled in photography but I can relate to your topic because writing is the tool I use to process stress, strong emotions, and difficult life circumstances. For me, writing is a way to sort out my thoughts, make sense of them, see them in a new light, or sometimes, even a way to talk myself out of patterns of thinking that bring me down. I wonder how similar these two hobbies -- writing and photography -- are in terms of their therapeutic benefits. At any rate, I'm excited to see your research and ultimately essay develop
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