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Christopher Caruso

Blog # 1

Due to the fact that it is so early in the semester, I really have no idea what would qualify as a good writing studies research topic.  Because of the fact that this blog was created for an English course, I find it appropriate that my research must be related to literature somehow.  If possible, or if proven not to be too difficult to research, might be interested in researching the following:

1) The experience that one has when reading a story vs. watching a film adaptation of said story

2) How movie adaptations of stories might effect book sales of original story (or vice versa)

3) How the environment or life style of a person influences tastes in literature

4) Do authors or stories from previous generations or time periods remain relevant to modern day readers?

5) The experience one has while reading literature from previous time periods (i.e. Mark Twain, Frank L. Baum, F. Scott Fitzgerald) vs. reading literature written today (i.e. Stephenie Meyer, Stephen King, J.K. Rowling).

Before I come up with any more possible topics, I must first make sure that the topics I have already listed are relevant to the course and would be possible to study.  I look forward to eventually narrowing these topics down to one that is both plausible and enjoyable to do.