Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Discovery Essay "Tentative Topic" Blog

Here's what to include in the short blog I assigned in class on Monday:

1.) Tentative topic for your discovery essay

2.) Tentative research question (the "focusing question" that will guide your research)

3.) Rationale: Why does this topic matter (to you? to other people?) What are your reasons for exploring this topic in your essay? (This part only needs to be a couple sentences)

Be sure to read 456-57 in Ballenger--this section will help you to determine if yours is a "researchable" question. It will also help you to think through the "rationale" portion of your blog.

Remember, your topic and research question are tentative at this point--not written in stone. You may very well take a new direction once you get into the thick of doing research.

TO GIVE YOU MORE TIME TO THINK THROUGH POSSIBLE TOPICS, THIS BLOG IS DUE BY 5 pm on FRIDAY (9/26)

1 comment:

vdrussell said...

I was asking how have fininacial institutions become unstable.