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Tutorial: "Getting Ideas in Your Own Back Yard" Page 1

Getting Ideas:
"In Your Own Back Yard"

Overview

This tutorial is designed to help you generate writing topics for essays and/or research papers. You will first be asked to sketch an incident from which you will then generate a list of potential topics. Next you will learn five ways to narrow down a broad topic into workable subjects.

Objectives

At the conclusion of this learning activity, you will:

    blue bullet used to denote item in a listbe able to generate a list of potential topics based on your personal interests.
    blue bullet used to denote item in a listknow five ways to narrow down a topic into workable subjects.
    blue bullet used to denote item in a listhave a list of potential topics for either a research paper or essay.

Content

"In Your Own Back Yard" can be completed as an on-line exercise or in-class.

Faculty who do not have Internet access in their classrooms can request a copy of Writing Fellows PowerPoint Presentation #001 which included the same information as this on-line tutorial. You will also need a copy of Writing Fellows Worksheet #010 in order to complete this lesson successfully. A copy of the PowerPoint presentation and a Microsoft word version of the handout may be obtained by e-mailing your request to fellows@schoolcraft.edu.

Assessment

Your instructor may ask you to submit a list of the topics you generated after completing this tutorial.

Writing About the Middle East

The last section of this tutorial show how to apply these concepts to getting a paper topic about the Middle East.


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