How did this project change me thinking on my subject?

Before I did the project with my teammates, what I focused on is the disadvantage of the MSN, and tried my best to compare the website with other communicational websites, such as Facebook ,Myspace, Imail and Gmail, I just thought that it is the competitors showed up that made MSN less popular than several years ago. During the group work with two other guys, whhat they mentioned in their proposal raised a new idea in my mind. Why not considering the other factors that have influence on the popularity of MSN? Ying has mentioned the catagoroes of people who prefered the website a lot, and at the same time, others againsted the website a lot, are there any factors that have connection with gender, age, education and so on. Also, she foused on the popularity of the same search engine in different countries, the specific one she talked a lot is China. The hometown of her. I think it is a good point since she must know the China a lot than anyone who is non-native. And she could have deeply research on the topic. So, I think I shouldnt just focus on the competitors in the US, I may think about other factors which may have effect on the development of MSN in the furture. And also during the group work time, we found something in common that really helped me to reconsider my paper and have new ways approach to the main claim to make it more interesting and attractive to others. Also, the new ideas that raised more evidence to support my topic and made it more convinced.

My experience with writing the topic proposal

To write a successful topic proposal is a very hard job for me to do, since it is playing an important role in the whole research paper. The topic is about a website which has communication service or the website can let the customers to input sth on it. So, it is important to decide whuch website to choose at first, the website I chose is www.msn.com. It is a website that offers the service like MSN, and hotmail... These service is focusing on communication between people around the world, and make it convenient to keep in touch with others. The topic proposal should has a key point, that means I should emphasize on one question that I will raise in the paper. MSN is one of the earlies website who offers the service of chatting on line, but it is not as popular as several years ago since other website is developing during these years, shuch as Facebook, My space, Gmail, Imail and so on, so I will focus the question that why students prefer other website than MSN? And that means what is the disadvantage of chatting on MSN.So before I wrote the paper, I did some research on the worksheet, and I found the answer about the website, such as: How does the website help people connect online? How does the website help people to connect in real life? What are the social groups that interact on the website? Also I cpmpare the website with the one who offers the similar service----Facebook. After I did the worksheet, I found that there are a lot of details of the website, and I need to choose sth useful among them on topic proposal. And I also compared the effect on the real life and online life of the website, there are sth similar between real life and online life, also to know the social catagory who use the website most often is also sognificant for me to solve the question that I will raise in topic proposal. The worksheet helped me to reorganize the information that I got on line, and when I was doing the proposal, I still look up sth useful on the worksheet, and also use the good resources of the worksheet. The problem I met in the process is that I can't foghre out a topic sentence for every paragraph, so there would be a problem of transaction between paragraphs, and I need to focus on chatting ( instant messenger), raise a question have connection about it. It is really important for readers to understand the main idea clearly.