What is an idea?
Ideas include:
How do we express ideas?
In many cases, an idea can be expressed in isolation (by itself) e.g. "People should not be allowed to smoke in public places."
However, in most formal writing and idea needs to be supported with facts or information e.g. "People should not be allowed to smoke in public places because studies have shown that others can become ill from second hand smoke".
In this example, the idea (the 'what'- smoking) is supported by some other information (the 'why'- second hand smoke is bad).
Your argument is greatly improved if you can take this process one step further and develop your ideas. Idea development builds on a single idea by:
How to provide a 'why' to the following ideas, and develop them further if you can. The Idea (what it is about)
The Why (fact/evidence/detail) Further development
Example:
(The What!) The Issue or Aspect - The driving age should be increased to 25 years.
(The Why?) The Argument for - Because people aged 15-25 have the most road accidents.
Assignment 1. - Due Sept. 9th
Choose four (aspects - issues) from your story ideas (The What).
Then develop each aspect by providing facts and information in support (argument for) of it (The Why).
Remember, the better developed your argument, the more likely you are to succeed in writing a good paper.
Assignment 2. - Due Sept. 9th
Now pick only one of the 4 ideas (aspects - issues) which you selected in assignment 1. that you supported (argument for), and write an argument against it.
Total points for assignment and assignment 2 = 5 points Modified by Ajarn Willard:©Ministry of Education, Wellington, New Zealand (First published 1998).
Class hand-out Sept 2nd on how to draft a paper. A rough draft is usually a mess. Look at the example of my rough draft.
Assignment due Sept 16th was is in the class hand out of Sept. 2nd.
Write a 500 word rough draft. Pass in along with your portfolio. 10 points
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