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CHAPTER 1. MAKING DISCOVERIES

CHAPTER 1. MAKING DISCOVERIES. Expository Writing. Writing, pp. 2-11. Find a territory. Ask interesting questions Use strategies for finding a topic Take inventory when you have a topic Brainstorm Write nonstop Use guides Make an idea map. Ask interesting questions.

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CHAPTER 1. MAKING DISCOVERIES

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  1. CHAPTER 1. MAKING DISCOVERIES Expository Writing Writing, pp. 2-11

  2. Find a territory • Ask interesting questions • Use strategies for finding a topic • Take inventory when you have a topic • Brainstorm • Write nonstop • Use guides • Make an idea map

  3. Ask interesting questions • Focus: What you want to know about • Find out: Where experts disagree • Analyze: How current trends are being explained • Examine: Proposals to solve problems • Compare: Claims and reality

  4. Use strategies for finding a topic • Personal • Work • Community/church • Nation/world

  5. Take inventory when you have a topic • Journalists’ 5W and H: • 1. Who? • 2. What? • 3. When? • 4. Where? • 5. How? • 6. Why? • Writing, p. 65

  6. Brainstorm • Sentence length • Paragraph length • Word choice • Relationship with reader

  7. Write nonstop • Focused freewrite • Do not stop to correct • Keep writing • But stay on topic • Underline key ideas • Choose one key idea and write again

  8. Use guides • Library subject search • Online search engines

  9. Make an idea map • Start with general subject • Branch out into categories • Generate topics about each category • Select sections

  10. CHAPTER 2. READING TO EXPLORE Expository Writing Writing, pp. 12-21

  11. Become a critical reader • Where did it come from? • What does it say? • Can you trust the writer? • How does it work?

  12. Look with a critical eye • What is the context and purpose of the visual? • Who is the intended audience? • Who produced the images?

  13. Read actively • Annotate what you read • Annotate difficult readings • Map what you read • Make notes

  14. Respond as a reader • Make notes • Write summaries • Build on what you read

  15. Use a discovery technique • Journalists’ 5Ws and H • Brainstorm • Write nonstop • Make an idea map • Choose a topic for a causal analysis and use one of these discovery techniques to write. You have 15 minutes.

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