Prewriting is a way of gathering your thoughts about potential topics for a paper. What you write here isn't intended to be actual text in your final paper, but rather an attempt to document thoughts and ideas that you can mine for a potential paper topic and thesis.
For this assignment, post your response to the "Paper #1: Prewriting" discussion board topic. Copy and paste AND attach a copy of the MS Word file for your prewriting.
The task: pick a text from our daily homework as a starting point. Write a loose paragraph of at least half a page that details what ideas or issues caught your attention in the text. As you write out your ideas, think about what kind of an argument you could make about the broader meaning of the text and develop that idea, even if you can only write questions about the topic related to your potential interpretation. Once you complete that paragraph, write on a separate line the following:
My topic: [list the text or texts you want to discuss and a broad issue related to the text]
My potential thesis: [write out what you want to prove specifically. Avoid statements like "I want to prove X about [text] by showing how the story supports this idea." Instead, you should be able to say, "I want to prove X about [the text] because of A, B, and C in the text" to force yourself to be specific.]
Then list three quotes from the text that you might use in your paper. Use quotation marks, ensure that your quotation is accurately reproduced, and put the author's last name and page number in parentheses after each quote.
Please use MLA format for your response to get practice in setting up your word processor for our paper.