Nt1310 Unit 1 Assignment

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One/1: When approaching your paper, you must consider what your writing situation is. That will help you identify who your readers will be and why they would read your paper. Once you understand that you can start generating ideas and topics that you would like to write about. To generate ideas about your paper you can brainstorm, free write, and cluster ideas as they come to you. Then, when you have your ideas written down you can refine your topic and start to develop a research question. At that same time, you can start to read, evaluate, and collect the information you have found. It is also a good time to take notes or highlight what you think is important and begin to take a position. Next, you can start organizing your argument, sources, …show more content…

The book is reasonable and thorough as it presents research writing as a process that students can understand. The first chapter opens with starting the process of thinking of ideas for a research paper and aligning it with the type of paper using different methods. The book also addresses writing with confidence while integrating different tools during the process. I enjoyed how it chunked some chapters together to help the reader follow the research process. From Joining the Conversation to Working with Sources. Then, Collecting Information to Creating Your Document and finally Documenting Sources. The main goals of the author were to have its readers think about research writing in a new way and to think of it as a conversation where information is shared and exchanged. The author also validates that the typical writing process does not follow a straight line, most writers move back and forth as they rethink and revise their paper. I found the first chapter very useful to gear a writer to think of writing as a form of conversation and to assist the writer in writing with confidence. I also gained more knowledge on Avoiding Plagiarism, knowing the difference of common knowledge, and asking permission to use a source is

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