Lanes chapter 5 Reading Response
This chapter demonstrates the importance of online research and the steps that you have to take. Whenever you write something, no matter if its a school project, a work report, or just writing for fun, there is always a topic. Sometimes you are given a topic but sometimes you have to think of one yourself. You can just start out with some simple research and reading online then start to make a list of possible topics. Once you have a topic picked out you can begin to free write and "mind map" or sketch out early ideas for a topic. Then you can generate some research questions to help with online searching. Researching gives you so much information that you can write about in your paper. And one of the most important steps is to include a bibliography or a works cited page. This gives credit to the authors of the research you used in the paper. What I found most helpful about this chapter was it listed all the steps so clear and even provided a guided process example on how to choose a topic!
Yes I agree that the basis of any writing is a topic. It is interesting that you start with one idea that can form a huge paper, with many other little ideas. I also think that finding the right topic that is broad enough to find other info with is important, but also a topic that is specific enough to not confuse the reader is also equally important.
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