HREQ 3450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Online Writing Lab, Thesis Statement
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Quotations, paraphrasing, summarizing: take their work, re-word their work (entirely), main ideas in own words. Essay writing and research achieving university success. The first link in the chain of university success involves the cultivation of passion and interests. You may choose a topic that has a personal connection to you. (biographical) You may choose a topic that has a connection to the society that you live in. (sociological) You may choose a topic that is important in our contemporary world. (contemporary) You may choose a topic that has changed the way we think about things. (historical) That is, there is always an assumed answer or at least a presumed set of answers. Often the language and phrasing used are clues to how you might approach the answer to a question. This phase is very important because it sets the intellectual context for your response. You must set limits on your research scope.