Chapter seven in “the Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing” was a very helpful chapter to help complete essay number two. It gave a lot of ways to help you research and expand on topics. It also gave great examples of parts of and a whole exploratory essay. The first hot spot I found is on page 156. My hot spot has to do with two topics. The first is strategies for composing an exploratory essay and the second is framework for an exploratory essay. On page 156 there is a table that describes the two strategies for composing the essay. The first strategy is called real-time strategy and the second is called retrospective strategy. Basically, the real-time strategy says you get the body of your essay during your research and thinking. The other strategy, retrospective strategy says that you look back on all your research and notes and you compose the body of your essay while you look back on it all. There are advantages of both strategies. The advantage for the real-time strategy is that you get rapid ideas and different ideas very quickly that you can expand upon. With the retrospective strategy, it allows you to have more selection after you have done all of the research and is better for shaping the details of the essay. The reason why I liked this hot spot so much is because it is a great guide on how to start your essay and get your big ideas. I think that I will most likely use a little bit of both strategies. I like the idea of getting spontaneous ideas throughout your research because I think that a lot of ideas you get that way could be useful. I also like the idea of gathering all of the research and notes and then making the decision on what goes into the essay. I will most likely get ideas and expand on them during research but in the end I will get ideas during research and compare them to ideas I get after research and see which ones I want to add to my essay.
My second hot spot was on pages 163 to 167. There was an example essay on those pages that was very well written. The reason why I liked the example essay so much is because it will be a great tool to use when I am writing mine. I am the type of person that likes to see how something is done, then try to use that as a framework for my essay, so I know I am formatting and using the information and arguments correctly. I feel like it will help me construct my essay and give me a good direction on where to go if I run into trouble. It will be a nice backup to have to double check that I am doing everything correctly.
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