Finding a research topic can be stressful for most people. However, in BBG pgs 261-276 they explain how to try and narrow down a topic so that it can be effective in ones writing. It taught me that at first one must generalize a topic at first but then we must ask a specific research question to make our research more specific. If at first the article results are to much one must make there topic even more specific or else there will be to much material to cover. It also works the other way, if your topic is to specific then you must try to broaden your topic so more articles will appear. The BBG also says that one should try to find a topic they enjoy about writing. If someone finds a research topic that they are interested in then it will make writing the paper much easier and the quality of the writing might even be better. These pages also helped me begin to brainstorm for a research topic in P2 as it also talks about different preliminary writing techniques to get your ideas out on paper.
Throughout chapter 1 of “The Bedford Book of Genres,” I learned that there are a variety of ways to improve one’s writing. Several writers tend to get carried away while writing that they forget who their audience is and what message they are trying to deliver. This is when one must ask themselves what their purpose of writing is, do they want to present a narrative/ tell a story, inform, or persuade. After figuring out ones purpose they must choose a genre to be able to shorten their idea and be concise. In order for this to occur one must know the basic qualities and agreed-upon rules about the genre they are composing. Once one makes those decisions they move on to the rhetorical situation which mainly explains the idea. This allows the writer to provide support on their purpose such as saying what is great about it or provide statistics, which will automatically make their writing more interesting for the audience to read, as well as, get t...
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