Writing Essays: Do You Use Research or Opinion?

United States
October 28, 2008 6:11pm CST
When you write an essay, do you look up resources or are your essays more opinion based? I write more opinion based essays. It sometimes gets me in trouble, but my opinions are my opinions. I have written essays based on research, but they do take a lot of time.
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fifileigh
@fifileigh (3615)
• United States
29 Oct 08
i usually do more research papers than opinion papers. but i think a combination of both is better, to make the whole paper more interesting and give it your personality.
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taripres
@taripres (1499)
• United States
29 Oct 08
I do a mixture of the two. Though you may have opinions, u still need factual backing to justify your opinion! What good is an opinion if it has no valid point? Taripre$
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daydreamer20
@daydreamer20 (1688)
• Malaysia
29 Oct 08
Both. I get my information and ideas from doing some basic research. The ideas and stuff will then be presented based on my opinions. That way, I can tell the readers some facts and not just purely based on my opinions which could be based on nothing.
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