Published by admin on 27 Jan 2009
How to Choose a Subject
Any way, you must find your core of interest, and decide what you have to say in your classification essay that your audience will value. An excellent way to start is to write. “Mulling things over” rarely works. Worry adds to anxiety, and thoughts you do not jot down get forgotten or lost. Writing gives your ideas form and substance, so you can come back later on and add to or reshape them.
Whether having assigned classification topics or selecting your own, you should get concentrated and engaged with your project. Assigned classification topics may seem limiting your work at first, but they provide abundance of space for personal expression. Open classification topics while promising freedom may be daunting, as they do not give direction. They leave all up to you.
To get started, you should not be afraid about your subject–begin writing. Let the whole process get complicated and messy. Give yourself freedom to make some mis¬takes. Or fly off at a tangent. Mistakes usually turn into discoveries. Also, a tan¬gent can turn into a focal point. You should try free writing or journalist’s questions. Also, you need to experiment with the next activities. Then get carried away. Pause. Then look over what you have written. Also, you need to search for patterns, overriding concerns, flashes of insight. Cut. Paste. Join. Move. You will discover that you are well on a way.
Activities
1. Make a list of five to seven items of writing possibilities. Comprise several “off-the-wall” subjects. For example, if your appointed topic was WWII, you might make a list of “strange army hats” and later choose this could make a good paper.
2. Take a couple of items from the previous list and divide the topics on branching trees.