Research Ex #2

Pugh, Kelley, “The Effect of Music on Creative Writing” (2014). Student Publications. 4.

 

https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/student_publications/4

 

This source covers the discoveries of listening to music has an effect on writing. “In this paper, Kelley asks several research questions about the effects of music on creative writing, and then uses empirical research methods to answer those questions. The paper is organized like a social science research article, with a literature review, methods section, results, and discussion. The data that Kelley collected is fascinating and really shows the power of her research design and method. Her data yielded interesting results and conclusions that have implications for people interested in creative writing. She was also able to give some evidence for the, previously under- investigated, “Mozart effect,””(Cedarville). This source covers the discoveries of listening to music while writing. This article has two research questions: 1) How much of an impact does music have on our emotions? 2) To what extent can those emotions can be transferred to our writing? The types of data used was a survey, a case study, and textual analysis from the case study to evaluate the written works of the people in the survey. This research was well written to the point that after reading I wasn’t left wondering, it was straightforward and did not cut any corners from the research question to the analysis. Others might find interesting like I did, was pretty simple. That there is actual research and evidence done proving the fact that music does have an effect on emotion and writing and that it is not just a floating accepted concept.

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