Final Blog Posting

1. Through my research, I have learned many new facts of schizophrenia and the portrayal of facts in Hollywood movies. At first, I have hypothesized that films have accurately portrayed facts of schizophrenia but through research, I have found that there were inaccuracies portrayed.
Also, I have learned that college level researched requires responsible sources and not just sources you find online through google research.

2. I would advise students to fully use the research speed dial to help them research. It would give them a more responsible and reliable source that could be used for college level research paper.
You should also complete and follow up with all the milestones to be on track! It would really help in writing the research paper.

3. If I were to do this research paper again, I would first find the main responsible sources and highlight the important facts that will back up your thesis statement. I would then organize them so that when I am writing the draft, I would have an organized citations.

Main Sources used

My two main sources on my research paper on the portrayal of schizophrenia in "A Beautiful Mind" is an encyclopedia article "Schizophrenia" by Gulli and Rosick from the The Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders

This encyclopedia article is about the genetic disorders of schizophrenia. It describes the mental illness and the diagnostic details of the disease. 

The second source I will be using is "Beautiful Mind is a Welcome Approach" by Stephenson. 

This article is about schizophrenia and  how it affects everyday lives of the patients. It shows what schizophrenia really is. I am going to use this as a source for how inaccurately schizophrenia was displayed in a Hollywood film.

Final research paper game plan

I the film A Beautiful Mind, I will argue that the Hollywood film has inaccurately portrayed the accurate schizophrenia.I will use my scholarly sources to compare the true diagnosis and symptoms of schizophrenia to how it is portrayed in the film. I will need to fix the paraphrasing and use the correct citations. I will need to come up with a decent closing conclusion for my paper. I will also need to have more than one citations for each paragraph.

My research topic ideas

I am thinking about writing my research topic on "Portraying Human Minds on Film".
I am thinking about using the film Beautiful Mind, which is about a professor and mathematician at Princeton University who gets involved in working for the government in breaking the codes of the Soviets during the war. He suffers from schizophrenia and the movie portrays of how it is overcome.

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