Paper Topic Strategies

The main idea that I got from reading these few pages was to start papers early. Procrastination is your worst enemy if you want to be able to use these writing tools mentioned in the passages. I think a lot of them have some good value associated with them. Especially if the problem being faced is writer’s block. I often suffer from that when starting a paper and wrapping a paper up. For this, I think that being able to write down your thoughts and say your thoughts aloud is good for brainstorming and coming up with every piece of information you can possibly think of that might relate to the topic even just a little bit. It helps a lot to do this because it allows for people to not focus on one specific subject but instead many different areas that relate to a large topic. This can be especially helpful in finding the best topic to write about. After taking breaks and going back to look at what you have already written, some of the things may sound completely absurd and can be crossed off the list of things to be written. Others that may have not seemed that important initially might become incredibly useful after being looked at a second time.

            This advice given by the book such as Googling a topic or reading the paper about a topic can be very helpful to finding a topic that actually has some significance to it. The more significant a topic is, the more there is to write about the topic. I think that doing things such as this are very helpful because they allow for the writer to find something relevant to current events, which will appeal to a much broader audience.

            All of these skilled that were advised of people are definitely helpful but they are completely useless if you wait until the last night before a paper is due. Taking five minutes to brainstorm about ideas is the last thing I want to do when I am writing a paper due in a few hours. Reading a newspaper to find a current event is also something that seems like more of a waste of time than anything when you are in a time crunch. However, if you have plenty of time to spare, these methods are definitely the best for finding a topic that you have a lot to write about and can appeal to a vast audience. It is when you take the time to plan the topic that the paper turns out the best opposed to other times when you pick a topic in ten seconds because it was the first thing you could think of and you need to start writing as soon as possible.