Should Minimum Wage Be Raised

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At the semester's beginning, we were assigned with formulating a research argument which would serve as the hallmark assignment for the course. During the selection period, the class was provided various controversial topics to choose from, and then formulate a research argument. After scanning through the allotted paper topics, one stood out the most to me: Should the minimum wage be raised? I ultimately came to the decision to write about this topic because I knew it had been increasingly in the realm of discussion in the months preceding -- especially due to our most recent 2016 presidential election. Here, I outline my approach to the research paper, some challenges I have faced, and the overall impact the paper has had on myself. The position I decided to take on my topic "Should the minimum wage be raise" is that it should not in fact be raised. I took the path of resistance, the …show more content…

If anything, the most revealing facet of this particular research assignment was that I had to tackle the research from both the concurrent side and the opposing side of the argument. Due to the complex nature of the topics provided for this assignment, it required deeper analysis and quantity of research to pull an unwavering argument together. Being so, I had to be sure to gathering information from many different source types, with many different directions in tackling my chosen topic in order for me to provide a multifaceted argument. After collecting the necessary resources (i.e. reaching the source minimum for this assignment), I found myself needing to gather more information because as I started to write the original draft, I realized that I had too many patches that needed to be filled within my argument. It took more digging and precise investigating to find more resources to each claim I looked to

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