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Article Selection (ENGL 2000, Spring 2019)
If I were to write a researched argument about the future, I would consider the following topics:

Autonomous vehicles
This is a well-known topic, so I would focus it further. I might look into the distant future where all vehicles on public roads are autonomous. It would be a future with minimal private car ownership, no traffic lights, no parking lots, no car repair shops, and very few gas or charging stations in populated areas. Most necessary maintenance infrastructure would be located in industrial parks away from residential and commercial centers.

Another option would be to write about the contentious transitional period where autonomous vehicles will share the road with human-operated vehicles. Will there be a further increase in traffic congestion as the two types of vehicles mix on our roads?

A third option would be to look at the impact of autonomous driving on the trucking industry.

A world without pet dogs
In a future where we have AI companions, we may no longer see the need for pet dogs. Machines don't need to be fed, vaccinated, walked, or placed in boarding facilities during vacations. Dog attacks will be a thing of the past.

Here are some related articles: Dog bite, Fatal dog attacks in the United States, Companion robot, Robotic pet, Tamagotchi.

The article on companion robots is a stub and would be a great article to edit, especially given the rising prominence of the subject.

Wojciech Ziwny
Since I don't have time to work on a full-blown researched argument, I will work on a more manageable topic. Wojciech Ziwny was Fryderyk Chopin's first music teacher. I'm currently reading a biography of Chopin and could easily use it as a source to add information about Ziwny to WP.

Wojciech Żywny: Article Evaluation
The article is very brief, but as far as I can tell from my limited knowledge of the subject, all the essential information is there and is accurate. The natural next step would be to add some more relevant details from new sources. Jim Samson's Chopin biography, which I'm reading right now, has some information about Ziwny's influence on young Chopin and about his social reputation in Warsaw, where he lived. I will start by adding that information.

The Czech, Polish, and German versions of the article are also quite basic, but I may be able to find some useful sources on them.

The article is ranked as a stub. With a little more information, I think it would qualify for a start ranking (one level above stub). Once I'm done with my edits, I'll see about changing the ranking.

Sources for Wojciech Zywny
from Jim Samson's biography of Chopin:


 * pages 12-13: Ziwny was primarily a violinist. This is part of the reason why Chopin developed his own idiosyncratic piano technique. Ziwny recognized his limitations as a piano teacher and only taught Chopin, who showed signs of extraordinary talent from early on, for five years.

Another project: the Czechoslovakia section of the article on Functionalism (architecture)
The section doesn't cite any sources. I can definitely find some.