Wednesday, July 22, 2009

My Research Topic

For my topic I knew wanted to do something about meditation, but I was having a hard time focusing that into an arguable issue, so I decided to make the main issue about alternative medicine and more specifically meditation. There is still some controversy about whether or not meditation can be a physiological cure or treatment and thats what I'll be focusing my argument on. A few types of arguments I could make would be a contradiction: either meditation is useful as a type of alternative medicine, or it isn't, or comparison by degree: meditation could be a useful treatment for some issues but not all, or I could argue about the definition by class or category: meditation is just one means of alternative medicine that could be helpful. All of those types of arguments are kind of what I want to focus on in my thesis and could be important arguments in my paper.