1. What is your possible topic? Brainstorm five questions
about it.
2. How is the topic important to you and how does it affect
you? What do you personally hope to gain or accomplish by
writing about this
topic?
3. Research your topic and provide a brief summary of the
current points of view about the topic. Share at least two
different/opposing positions on the topic.
4. Describe whom you might choose as your audience. Who are
your readers, and what are their needs, motivations, and
influences? In what
ways will you need to structure your writing to appeal to
them?
5. What specific issue will you write about within the larger
topic, and what unique angle will you provide?
1. What is your possible topic? Brainstorm five questions
about it.
2. How is the topic important to you and how does it affect
you? What do you personally hope to gain or accomplish by
writing about this
topic?
3. Research your topic and provide a brief summary of the
current points of view about the topic. Share at least two
different/opposing positions on the topic.
4. Describe whom you might choose as your audience. Who are
your readers, and what are their needs, motivations, and
influences? In what
ways will you need to structure your writing to appeal to
them?
5. What specific issue will you write about within the larger
topic, and what unique angle will you provide?
1. What is your possible topic? Brainstorm five questions
about it.
2. How is the topic important to you and how does it affect
you? What do you personally hope to gain or accomplish by
writing about this
topic?
3. Research your topic and provide a brief summary of the
current points of view about the topic. Share at least two
different/opposing positions on the topic.
4. Describe whom you might choose as your audience. Who are
your readers, and what are their needs, motivations, and
influences? In what
ways will you need to structure your writing to appeal to
them?
5. What specific issue will you write about within the larger
topic, and what unique angle will you provide?
1. What is your possible topic? Brainstorm five questions
about it.
2. How is the topic important to you and how does it affect
you? What do you personally hope to gain or accomplish by
writing about this
topic?
3. Research your topic and provide a brief summary of the
current points of view about the topic. Share at least two
different/opposing positions on the topic.
4. Describe whom you might choose as your audience. Who are
your readers, and what are their needs, motivations, and
influences? In what
ways will you need to structure your writing to appeal to
them?
5. What specific issue will you write about within the larger
topic, and what unique angle will you provide?
