ENG100H5 Chapter 3: Prewriting 2 (Plan Your Approach)
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After understanding the assignment, generating ideas, doing preliminary research, and analyzing the documents: narrow your topic, develop a working thesis, cluster ideas in a logical and effective order. Narrowing the topic: allows us to make the assignment our own, because we are modifying it to our own intellectual interests. 1. review the ranking table (repetition, strands, binaries table), preliminary research, and brainstorming notes. 2. ask journalistic questions (who, what, where, when, why, how) to pinpoint the topic. Be precise and concrete when answering these questions. If you answer the journalistic questions with yes or no , the topic can still be more precise. 4. review the answers to your questions and generate an operating hypothesis can help you focus your writing. Thesis needs to communicate a specific point about the topic. First, sort out the ideas that you get by exploring your topic. Using these ideas, you can draft a preliminary thesis (also called.
