Discussion
Even if you have a unique approach to drafting your writing, you need to generate ideas at the beginning of the writing process. To help your writing have a positive impact on your audience, now is a good time to begin doing preparatory work. These activities include gaining inspiration and generating ideas about issues in your community or workplace that would benefit from positive change. While you are not required to use the ideas you produce in this unit for future Assignments, it is a good idea to invest time and thought into viable topics for an argument for change.
After reviewing the Learning Activities, including the TED Talks on generating ideas, begin developing ideas for creating change in your community or workplace and sharing them on the Discussion Board. Your detailed ideas should be related to an issue or problem that interests you in the community or workplace. You are welcome to share several different ideas in order to receive feedback on them. Please respond to the following questions in at least two well-developed paragraphs:
- Explain your typical idea generation process. How does it compare to those described in the TED Talks or prewriting phases covered in this week’s Learning Activities?
- Describe a problem you would like to solve in your community or workplace. Why do you think this topic would be interesting to others, why is it important, and do you think you can find research on this topic?
If you are directly quoting the Learning Activities or another source, be sure to use quotation marks and cite the source using proper APA in-text citations and full references.
SAMPLE DISCUSSION:
Please note that this is a sample Discussion post to help inspire and guide your own original writing of the Assignment. Your Assignment does not need to look exactly like the sample, as this sample is just a possible response to the Assignment prompt. Be sure to review the Reading and grading rubric, complete each task in the instructions, and contact the instructor with any questions.
DISCUSSION:
My writing process definitely changes depending upon the writing situation. I just started a blog with informal movie reviews, and I find that I write my posts best when I have just seen the movie and have details fresh in my mind. I might jot down notes about scenes I really enjoyed or parts that disappointed me, but I do not need to do any formal prewriting. For a school assignment or work-related project, I try to do more preparation, but too often, I write my school assignments with less preparation than a blog post. I think the main change I need to make to my writing process for this class will be reviewing the discussion and assignment instructions very carefully prior to writing. I have a tendency to glance at an assignment and just start writing, and too often, I end up leaving out an important part of the assignment.
My idea generating process is pretty scattered at this point, but I felt encouraged by the subtitle of Boone’s article, “from mess to masterpiece” (2011). To get inspiration, I reviewed Steve Johnson’s (2010) TED Talk “Where Good Ideas Come From.” I loved his point that ideas do not have to come in a single “illuminating moment” but instead usually emerge from a “network” where people and their environment inspire each other to come up with solutions to problems, like the “neonurture device” made from car parts (Johnson, 2010). I don’t have to have all of the answers right away; this class and my professor will help me nurture my ideas.
Trying to come up with a problem to tackle is a little intimidating, but I do have several issues that interest me. The one I think I will write about for this unit is rooted in my personal experience and tied to my future career. I have a son on the autism spectrum who is nonverbal, and I am studying to become an ABA (applied behavior analyst) therapist so I can work with other children on the spectrum and be better equipped to help my own son. I believe that this topic is interesting to a lot of people given the increasing number of kids with autism and ADHD, and I know I can find research on this topic on the internet and in the KU Library since I have already been reading some articles on this topic for my education classes.
References
Boone, J. (2011). Prewriting: From potential mess to masterpiece. Retrieved from https://kucampus.kaplan.edu/DocumentStore/Docs11/pdf/WC/Prewriting_March2011. pdf.
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