planning-proposing arguments

Chapter 4 is about planning and proposing research arguments. One way you can get started on your research pick a texts that moves you and start brainstorming about it. The chapter says by asking questions about your text you can move beyond initial response and in to realm of intellectual discovery. The chapter goes to talk about constructing research logs. Your research log can take many forms from handwritten journal, to a series of processing documents, a personal web log, or a collection of booked marked pages from the web. It dose not matter what your research log looks like but the way you use it. The chapter moves to talk about prewriting which is writing that precedes the official drafting of the paper. There are many forms of prewriting lists, scribbled notes, informal outlines, and drawing the all focus to help you narrow down a topic. Next to be talked about was graphic brainstorming provides writers a great way to develop a topic. Webbing,clustering,or mapping are examples of graphic brainstorming. Next would be drafting a research hypothesis and drafting a research proposal.