The first chapter serves as a guide for how to pick a topic
for a research paper. The chapter suggests the first step to writing a paper is
to have confidence in what you are writing. The rest of the chapter acted
mostly as an outline for how to pick a topic and begin the writing process.
When picking your topic, the chapter explained that you have to carefully
consider topic you are interested in and one you are willing to debate. The
next step would be considering your audience and format, who are you writing
for and how can you best present this information to that group? After going
through the process of picking a topic, there are several brainstorming ideas
the book describes for beginning the writing process.
I thought much of the chapter was rather redundant. I do
think that the tools they suggested will be useful for the writing process, but
it seemed like they were just repeating the same ideas over and over again. Honestly,
the part of the chapter I found most useful was the very end. The whole idea of
this paper is rather overwhelming, not so much because of the length of the
paper, but because of the amount of time we are going to spending on this one
project and I’ve been having a hard time trying to find something I can write
about for so long. The end of the chapter served as a sort of reminder that no
matter what topic I choose, it may shift or change as the writing process
continues.
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