One of the main ideas in chapter 1 in Rules for Writers is generating ideas and sketching a plan. Meaning write down some ideas and “brain storm.” Things like listening to music might help, or simply saying them out loud when driving to work might help as well. Second would be to experiment with ways to explore your subject. Meaning instead of just doing a first draft, play around with a couple of techniques for your subject like: Free writing, keeping a journal, asking the journalist’s questions, and lastly annotating the texts and taking notes. The goal is to come up with many ideas that will lead you to a question. Third would be to formulate a tentative thesis. Meaning to find the central idea. And lastly, to sketch a plan. Meaning after you think of some ideas and form a thesis, make up an informational outline.
I plan to use these things in my writing. I think free writing helps, so generating ideas before a first draft will be very helpful when writing a paper. Experimenting with ways to explore your subject, I think will help when trying to come up with more the idea, to answer a question. Another would be to formulate a tentative thesis. I can see this being helpful in organizing a draft. And lastly, to sketch a plan, I think will help keep ideas in order, to write a clear and neat draft.
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