2. STANDARD COMPETENCY Students understand the notion of academic wiriting, identify the tone of academic writing, rethorical organization of wrting and also aplly these skills in writing academic discourse.
7. CONTINUED... Brainstorming is the technique that generate ideas have choosen a topic and narrowed it to specific focus.
8. 2.A. CHOOSING A TOPIC The first step of any research paper is for the student to understand the assignment. If this is not done, the student will often travel down many dead-end roads, wasting a great deal of time along the way. Do not hesitate to approach the instructor with questions if there is any confusion. A clear understanding of the assignment will allow the student to focus on other aspects of the process, such as choosing a topic and identifying one's audience.
9. STRATEGIES FOR CHOOSING TOPICS 1. Choose the topic based on your interest 2. Topic that you chosed have lot of references 3. Pay attention the reader on the selecting words
11. 2.B. NARROWING TOPIC The scope of a topic depends on how much time and space you have to write and how much detail you are trying to use. For example, describing all the causes of World War II in three pages is impossible. You would have to either narrow your topic some more or write hundreds of pages to adequately discuss every cause. Defining your topic before you start writing will save you time and help you to research and/or to develop your thinking in a clear, methodical way.
12. CONTINUED... It is important to examine the topics we choose to determine whether they are too broad (or, in some instances, too narrow) for the writing assignments we are given. Once you have decided that a topic is too broad to be appropriate to your assignment (which is most often the case), you will need to have ways to narrow it. You will also want to consider, when writing essays that require research, how your research resources and limitations affect your choice of topics.
14. 3. LISTING Listing is a brainstroming technique in which you think aboout your topic and quickly make a list of whatever words or phrases come into your mind. Procedures: 1. Write down the general topic at the top of your paper 2. Then make a list of every idea that comes into your mind 3. Use words, phrases, or sentences and dont worry about grammar.
16. 4. FREE WRITING Freewriting : a brainstorming activity in which you write freely about a topic because you are looking for specific focus.
17. CONTINUED... Procedures: 1. Write topic at the top of your paper 2. Write as much as you can. Include: supprting items as facts, details and examples UNTIL run out of ideas. 3. Re-read your paper and circle the main ideas that would like to develop 4. Take the main idea and freewriting again