Ashia has a well-designed, strongly connected, and ideally balanced rhetorical triangle when she says, “When I’m picking a topic, I’m looking for a personal connection. Because I feel like I [can] get more feeling into the paper and create more pathos and ethos in the paper. I [want to] get my audience to feel what I am saying and to feel what I feel.” Notice how Ashia is connected to her topic, and her topic is connected to her audience, and, thus, her audience is connected to her, as a writer. Your approach to selecting a topic may be different from Ashia’s, but so long as you have chosen a topic you can approach with interest, you will be on the right track.