Tham khảo tài liệu 'essential guide to writing part 3', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | For more material and information please visit CHAPTER 5 Exploring for Topics Before beginning a draft you need to explore a subject looking for topics. Subject refers to the main focus of a composition topic to specific aspects of the subject. The subject of this book is writing. Within that subject grammar sentence style and so on are topics. Any topic of course can itself be analyzed into subtopics. Some people like to work through a subject systematically uncovering topics by asking questions. Others prefer a less structured less analytical approach a kind of brainstorming. They just begin to write rapidly and loosely letting ideas tumble out in free association. Then they edit what they ve done discarding some topics selecting others for further development. Neither way is right or rather both are right. Which you use depends on your habits of mind how much you already know about a subject and of course the subject itself. If you are writing about something that is easily analyzed why one candidate should be elected for instance rather than some other and if you ve already thought a good deal about the matter the analytical questioning approach is better. But if your subject is more nebulous your feelings about war say and you have not thought long and hard you may get stuck if you try systematic analysis. It might be better to For more material and information please visit 24 THE WRITING PROCESS scribble to get ideas on paper any ideas however far-fetched in whatever order. Finding Topics by Asking Questions What happened How When Why What caused it What were the reasons How can the subject be defined What does it imply or entail What limits should be set to it Are there exceptions and qualifications What examples are there Can the subject be analyzed into parts or aspects Can these parts be grouped in any way What is the subject similar to What is it different from Has it advantages or virtues Has it disadvantages or
