Unit#3 Blog #1

Unit #3 Blog #1
Aaron Pilgrim
LSTD 1233 Interdisciplinary Composition I
Dr. Rhonda Kyncl

                In this blog I am going to talk about planning & drafting a paper. The first thing you need to is to establish your goals. What does the professor want? Often the assignment will contain key words such as analyze, compare and contrast, define, describe, evluate, or propose that will assist you in determining what direction to take. (Fagley, L., 2009, The Penguin Handbook Third Addition, p. 17). Next, find a topic that you care about. Then explore your topic. Ask the Who, What, Where, When & Why questions. Another good thing is freewriting. I freewriting you basically write down anything that pops in your head for a set period of time and then go back and seperate the good ideas from the bad. Another way of getting ideas is by brainstorming. At the end of your brainstorming session, you cn create a list of good ideas for your topic.The next step is that you need to create a thesis statement. A thesis statement is basically where you tell your idea of what your paper will be about. a good idea would then be to create an outline. This is basically done by starting with your thesis and then outlining all your supporting data in headers underneath in order that you will be writing about them.The final thing you are going to want to do is to write a rough draft of your paper. You should be aware that this will not be a perfect draft or final draft of your paper and that it will be revised some. If you follow these steps, you should not have any problems with writing assignments.