Make the your research topic your own by asking yourself key questions that will submerse yourself into the topic. These questions should lead you to your argumentative standpoint or opinion on the topic. This process is important because it helps you find your preliminary topic and what you need to focus on while researching. Another point made in Envision was the importance of being interested in your topic whether it: interests you, inspires you, angers you, or you are some how focused the topic in another way. If you are interested in your topic than you will be more likely to understand and research more thoroughly because you do want to know more about it.
Another way to narrow your topic or define it is by doing different types of brainstorming. One type I learned about was visual brainstorming, which is where you write down your ideas and sub-topics in web form and the ideas and sub-topics that correlate are connected with lines. This process helps you understand what topics or ideas you are more familiar with or are interested in due to how many bubbles and correlating lines there are. There are also other ways to narrow your topic.
One aspect I discovered in the Envision chapter four was that free writing can be a way to organize your research topic that you have previously chosen. One way to make your freewrite more effective is by using a three-paragraph model. The three-paragraph model is in the first paragraph you state your thesis to help keep a critical and focused perspective, the second paragraph identify the sources you plan to use to research your topic, and in the third paragraph figure out any obstacles or problems that may come up when researching your topic and how to avoid or solve the problems.
These three topics were the most prominent details that I learned about while reading Envision chapter four. These tips or processes will be helpful to me when we write a research paper this semester.
Holly Demaree
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