Monday, January 27, 2014

Chapter 2: Exploring and Focusing


The main focus points in this chapter are how to explore your topic and how to focus on an issue. This chapter was super helpful to me because one of the most difficult parts I have when writing an essay is how to go about picking a topic and how to explore it, which includes the main points I will address in my essay. This chapter includes a helpful “Plan to Explore Your Topic,” which includes talking to people who may have knowledge about the topic you’re considering, conducting a list of questions that you could potentially ask them, a list of resources that will be available to you for your paper, as well as a way to track all of the information you collect. Finding and reviewing sources is a huge part of this chapter which includes descriptions of the sources that could be available to you and how you can use them. To focus on an issue, it’s important to find a topic that has a lot of discussion about it. Finally, it describes processes you can use to actually pick a topic. This is very useful to me because I always am very indecisive about what I want to write about.

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