In Chapter 3 of The Craft of Research by Wayne Booth, Gregory Colomb, Joseph Williams, Joseph Bizup, and William Fitzgerald, the authors talk about how to pick topics and write about. I learned that how to find interest from any topic.
In this quarter of the critical thinking and writing class, when we were assigned to write an analysis paper about a poem, I felt unconfident about the materials I was going to write about. The method in chapter 3 helped me a lot, the authors show that writers need to list out any interest points for them before they start writing it. Also, authors illustrate “Don’t limit yourself to what you think might interest a teacher or make you look like a serious student”, (Booth 761(Kindle Version)) which mean writers need to think out of the frame. It is necessary to be more creative, innovative, and passionate. It is important for writers to realize they are not writing to fulfill their responsibility. Rather, they are writing for what they passionate about. Like us, we are writing for our grade, we need to write something that we actually learned from it and what is interest for us.
Later in the paragraph, authors show us few ways on how to explore our topic. From that, I can apply those ways to help me write my paper. For instance, I did some background history check on the poem, which triggered my interest to write this paper. At last, authors show how to narrow down to one topic from a broad topic by using action words to demonstrate the meanings of the topic. Looking back into last quarter, some of the paper I wrote was too broad to define the message. From this, I am able to narrow down my thoughts and to compose writings with more details.
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