Writing Log 5A

When reading this section, I came across my first hotspot, “As we have noted, however, inexperienced writers sometimes truncate this process, closing off the period of exploratory thinking” (pg.147). I feel ad though, this is what I did when selecting my topic for the second essay. When I heard that out thesis had to be a posing question, I was thinking to myself what to write about that exact day. I came up with two questions, but sometimes when jumping the gun and picking the thesis early prevents a writer to know all of the knowledge about the topic and its complexity. When reading this statement, it made me think about my own thesis. I thought about all of the different viewpoints somebody could have over my topic. The second hotspot that stuck out to me was, “The essential move for exploratory thinking and writing is to keep a problem alive through consideration of multiple solutions or points of view” (pg.149). This hotspot stuck out to me because when I was talking to my step-mom about my topic, she was listing all of the angles I could talk about. This hotspot also has a connection to my previous one because they are both talking about how when picking a topic, you have to realize that there are many solutions to each problem. When someone is developing a thesis or a problem in our case, the writer must think of a solution to the problem, and then continue to think about another solution, this then makes the problem alive throughout the whole essay. When a writer is writing an exploratory essay, they too have to be creative with what they are talking about, so the essay doesn’t seem boring.