CHAPTER 1. MAKING DISCOVERIES Expository Writing Writing, pp. 2-11

Find a territory  Ask interesting questions  Use strategies for finding a topic  Take inventory when you have a topic  Brainstorm  Write nonstop  Use guides  Make an idea map

Ask interesting questions  Focus:What you want to know about  Find out: Where experts disagree  Analyze:How current trends are being explained  Examine:Proposals to solve problems  Compare:Claims and reality

Use strategies for finding a topic  Personal  Work  Community/church  Nation/world

Take inventory when you have a topic  Journalists’ 5W and H:  1. Who?  2. What?  3. When?  4. Where?  5. How?  6. Why?  Writing, p. 65

Brainstorm  Sentence length  Paragraph length  Word choice  Relationship with reader

Write nonstop  Focused freewrite  Do not stop to correct  Keep writing  But stay on topic  Underline key ideas  Choose one key idea and write again

Use guides  Library subject search  Online search engines

Make an idea map  Start with general subject  Branch out into categories  Generate topics about each category  Select sections

CHAPTER 2. READING TO EXPLORE Expository Writing Writing, pp

Become a critical reader  Where did it come from?  What does it say?  Can you trust the writer?  How does it work?

Look with a critical eye  What is the context and purpose of the visual?  Who is the intended audience?  Who produced the images?

Read actively  Annotate what you read  Annotate difficult readings  Map what you read  Make notes

Respond as a reader  Make notes  Write summaries  Build on what you read

Use a discovery technique  Journalists’ 5Ws and H  Brainstorm  Write nonstop  Make an idea map  Choose a topic for a causal analysis and use one of these discovery techniques to write. You have 15 minutes.