Self-Assessment

            Do video games really make youth more violent? In my Issue Exploration Project I discuss the violence in video games controversy. Both sides’ views are expressed in this paper where one side believes that the violence portrayed in video games causes violence in teens and the other side believes that there is no correlation between the two. While this has been a conflicting argument for a long time, recent discoveries have found no link between the two giving a new light to the side with no correlation. This has caused more debate as it has been proven before that violence in teens and games do relate to one another.

            While I do address both sides of the argument my writing sides with the no correlation side. Although new research is proving that there is no link between the two many people do not believe that this is true.  Much of the past blame for violence often leads back to video games. Considerably much of the past research is conducted on non-reliable tests. This alone could prove that there is no correlation between violence in games and violence in youth in the future.

            My work in English 1010 this semester has built up my writing skills. During the class we wrote many different kinds of papers, which improved my writing of different styles including rhetorical writing, annotated writing and reflecting on my own papers and essays. While in the writing process for these papers we were taught how to brainstorm and focus main ideas in different ways.