Exploring and Focusing
How can I explore my topic?Create a plan to explore my topic. Include a list of people I can discuss my topic with, a list of questions, settings, resources.
Discuss my topic with others. Who can I learn more from? What questions, settings, resources can I look into to glean information about my topic.
Conduct preliminary observations. Immerse myself in the topic, observe valuable information not contained in sources.
Find and review my sources. Browse the library's online catalog, library's shelves. Look in books, scholarly articles, professional journals, magazines, and newspapers. Search the web and mark and annotate sources.
How can I focus on an issue?
Identify conversations about issues in my topic. Find central concepts that are repeated, and broad themes discussed. Find disagreements, and recurring voices.
Assess my interest in the issue. Determine my personal interest which is definitely there I am very interested in Global Warming which is why I chose it for my topic.
Choose an issue. Will selecting this issue achieve my purpose in writing this paper? Yes, any knowledge I can give people on Global Warming to share with others is a win for me. Will readers want to learn about this issue, is it appropriate for my project's context, is it compatible with my requirements, are there opportunities? I hope readers will be interested by how much they didn't know about Global Warming.
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