Writing Assignment and Checklist: Evaluating Your Narrowed Topic

WRITING ASSIGNMENT

Review your narrowed topic (recorded in Practice 2) and ideas from your prewriting. Use the checklist that follows to make sure your topic and ideas about it are clear. If necessary, spend some more time clarifying your topic or generating ideas before moving on to Chapter 3.

CHECKLIST

Evaluating Your Narrowed Topic

  • This topic interests me.
  • My narrowed topic is specific.
  • I can write about it in a paragraph or an essay (whichever you have been assigned).
  • I have generated some things to say about this topic.