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University of Phoenix Material

Topic Selection and Generating Ideas

Complete Part 1 and Part 2 below, which will help you complete the Expository Essay due in Week 5. Your response to each part should be at least 175 words.

Part 1: Topic Selection

• Read the list of broad topics, narrowed ideas, and research questions provided in the Topics List in this assignment.

• Choose a broad topic, narrowed idea, and question for your Expository Essay due in Week 5.

• Explain why you have selected this broad topic, narrowed idea, and research question.

• What interests you academically or personally about your selections?

• Before you submit this assignment, pay attention to your sentence structure working to avoid run-on sentences and fragments in your reply. For help avoiding run-on sententces the Grammar Tutorials located in this week’s learning activites and in the materials for this assignment.

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Part 2: Generating Ideas

• Read the Tips for Generating ideas presented in Ch. 1 of Pathways, (p. 3): freewriting, brainstorming, or branching.

• Select one of the tips to generate ideas for the topic you have selected for your essay. You only need to select one of the three tips presented in the reading.

• Write a paragraph describing how the process of generating ideas for the selected topic has helped you focus your final paper.

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