Chapter One

Here in Chapter One, you are given key points and tips on how the process of writing a research paper begins.  The first chapter went onto point out that in order to boost up your confidence even more, you can use two important tools, genre and design.  Genre, being types of documents and design, being the appearance of the documents.  As you distinguish one document from another you can look at the use of columns, headings and photographs in a newspaper article.  When asking yourself questions, you want to focus on important ones that will help your paper succeed in the long run.  An appropriate topic includes a subject of debate, discussion and discovery.  I want to be sure to choose a topic that will interest me, keeping me motivated for a successful paper in the long run.  Making a personal connection will also engage not only my interest, but my readers as well.  Additional tips that will be useful to my paper is brainstorming, freewriting, looping and clustering.  Looping is an alternative form of freewriting.  you set a time amount, doesn't have to be too long, then read what you've written.  One key idea should be identified when reading, then create a new one once you start back up on writing. Now clustering on the other hand, is a bit different but has some similarities in a way.  Clustering involves you presenting your ideas in a graphical form.  You are then able to map out the relationships among your ideas and then further help you come up with new ones.  These tips are just a few helpful ways on how I can begin my research paper.