Chapter one as its heading implies is all about getting started. It talks about how to approach your researching with confidence and how to pick a topic that will inspire you to write, or that you are already inspired to write about. Essentially if you have no interest in the subject you’re writing about how is anyone supposed to have any interest in reading what it is you wrote? A big portion of this chapter covers picking a topic. There are tips on brainstorming and importantly it reminds you to think about why you’re writing a research paper in the first place. Is it just for that coveted 4.0, or do you have something personally invested? Who’s your target audience? Would they care about your topic? Is your writing style over their heads or worse yet is the writing style beneath them? This chapter is just to get the cogs in your brain lubed and spinning; it’s time to start thinking about your paper.
I feel like this chapter is trying to say ok you got a big ass paper coming up and I’m sure your stressing it like crazy, but look if we break it down for you like this it’s just a series of small tasks, not one gigantic paper. So relax and approach each task with confidence. When all these little things come together you’ll see you wrote your whole paper, no sweat. Now as far as the brainstorming tips they have in the book, to be blunt they are of no use to me. They are the same tired ideas they shoved at me in 3rd grade and have continued to shove at me ever since. That is not to say they are bad tips just that for how my mind works they are unsuccessful. Fortunately I have been able to come up with my own ways of brainstorming over the years so this shouldn’t present a problem for me.
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