However, I really don't like research papers. The "why" is simple enough. I can't write my opinion. I've never written a thesis paper; merely papers that are my summaries of other's knowledge. Which perturbs me quite a bit.
I've never been restricted as to the "what" I was writing about, although guidelines are usually set around a broader topic. The freedom I've felt is both positive and negative. Sure, a senior year paper shouldn't need much guidance or restriction. But if I'm in the fifth grade writing about the Giant Panda's plight...the teacher should be helping a bit. Or who knows, maybe that helped my writing.
I'm hoping for this research assignment the topic is completely up to me. I have a few concepts in mind I'd like to explore.
Don't worry though, I won't be writing about the Devil Squid.
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First off let me say that i admire you for enjoying research... most students hate research papers for the "research" part of it and it's interesting that you don't. It is a good point that you would want to write about whatever topic you would like to so that you could be interested in the research that you were doing. On the other hand it might be easier to have an assigned topic so that you would be sure to find reliable information on it. If you pick something random you might be out of luck with real sources, but the teacher would not assign a topic that is hard to research. I don't really know what is better researching what you want, or knowing what to do in advance.
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