2.        EXPLORING

 

EXPLORING

You’ve answered the important selecting questions and begun to write, even though your paper remains sketchy. Now what do you do? You need to explore what you’ve selected. Like selecting, Exploring is a pre-writing exercise, designed primarily to make you think. Remember, writing is thinking on paper. Therefore, including a step in your writing process that allows for thinking is critical to good writing. This chapter examines how you collect and store information, as well as how to connect it.

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