Chapter Two

Chapter two gets a little more in depth with your research process.  Being able to explore your topic involves throwing out ideas with others which can be helpful in furthering your process.  Once you have explored your topic, you can then identify conversations about issues in your topic, assess your interest in the issues and choosing one issue from that.  I liked how they compared attending a public meeting to the strategies used in the process of exploring your topic.  In order to explore your topic, it's smart to create a plan, discuss topics with others, conduct observations and find and review sources.  Step one in chapter two goes onto give bullet points on how to create a plan.  The different steps are helpful to me and how I can now begin exploring my topic.  Find people whom I can discuss my topic with, come up with a list of questions to ask people who can help explore my topic, a list of settings that I may observe to learn even more about, a list of resources and a system for keeping track of the different information collected.  Once I talk to others about my topic, it's smart to find people who know a great deal about the topic I'm exploring.  Reason being is because I am then given insights that aren't available through other sources.  After assessing all the issues, it's best to pick the strongest candidate and the one that is the most interesting.