Solitary Confinement Research Paper Examples

In the weeks leading up to September 20th, I was working on a research paper for my Writing 101 class. I decided my papers topic should be on solitary confinement almost right of the bat, but that eventually turned out to be problematic. I looked at everything I could find on solitary confinement, even things that were similar to solitary confinement, so I could have the best understanding as possible on the subject. Unfortunately, my research assignment became extremely difficult due to me not researching my supporting topics thoroughly before I began writing.
As I began looking over the research essay’s instructions I saw “The effects of social exclusion on the choices consumers make” written as a one of the examples that I could write my paper on. Upon seeing that, my immediate next thought was about a show my husband was watching a few night …show more content…
I had planned my entire paper around being able to separate the symptoms by their causes. When I found out I could not I had to start back at the beginning with just my topic. Luckily while reading “Effects of social exclusion on cognitive processes: Anticipated aloneness reduces intelligent thought” by Baumeister, Twenge & Nuss (2002), I found that solitary confinement could also cause cognitive function to decline. Finding this new factor to the dangers of solitary confinement allowed me to combine the lack of social interaction and the lack of stimulus together to make one supporting topic versus the two being separate. Had I researched my supporting topics more thoroughly before beginning I would not have had the problems that I did. Discovering that cognitive function could decline as a result of solitary confinement saved my paper, had I not I probably would not have finished my paper in