In these online pages we learn first how to analyze the material after we have read it for composition and second how to annotate and highlight the most useful information for our purpose. Highlighting and noting key passages will help to track the main point of the writing and help you better understand what the author is trying to get across. One of the points this article makes is to not over highlight or make notes on the paper because too much of this will make the reader lose sight of the information they are trying to understand.
When developing a thesis with these points in mind it is important to remember to limit ideas to the broadest topics that can produce a lot of good imagery. Trying to keep key points to fewer more useful topics will help to narrow your thesis to one main broad topic that you can build off of. The article talks about prior to starting a paper, free writing as soon as you finish reading so that you jot down information that you thought was useful and referring back to notes and to the text while writing. One of the last points the article made was how and when to use quotes in a paper and the maximum percentage of your paper should be quotes.
One of the problems that I have when writing a paper is that I don’t want to take the time to go back through to reread what I just read. I don’t like rereading or re watching anything because I rarely ever pick up on anything extra the second time around. I have already found the usefulness of free writing and will continue to use that. Free writing is a very helpful tool in letting your mind wander and generating ideas and asking questions to answer later on while writing your essay.
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