Hello and Welcome to Rocio’s Story. Today we’re going to talk about Answering my main inquiry question.

Answering my main inquiry question was very easy because It was the biggest argument, in the graffiti world. All of the articles had a title related to this argument, my main inquiry question. I googled graffiti and all of the articles had a article, that had a title related to this topic. For example there was an article from Michigan state University called Graffiti:Art or eyesore, which basically means graffiti good or bad. This article was a prospective article. It had both sides included. This was a very helpful article and I got a lot of information from it. I also checked out a book from the library called graffiti. It was by Alix Wood. There were 2 pages about if it was art or not. It was helpful because there was also a chart.

The challenging part about answering my main inquiry question was that most of the articles I read were in prospective. This confused me because I didn’t know what information to use. To help me figure this out, I guided my research in a way by my opinion. For example if it was an argument article, I would look on both sides of the argument, but stick more to my side.

Also, to help me answer my main inquiry question I had 5 sub questions. Those sub questions were: How is art defined?, Why do graffiti artist paint graffiti?, If graffiti is vandalism can it still be considered art?, How do laws affect what people think of graffiti and what are the pros and cons of graffiti?. In conclusion answering my main inquiry question was mostly easy, but it was a little hard. The sub question that mostly helped answer my main inquiry question was: If graffiti is vandalism, can it still be considered art? This sub question helped because it helped me figure out if graffiti was art or not. The answer that I came to for that question was that it can be both because graffiti has everything other forms of art have, even though its illegal.