Chapter one blog

The well named chapter one, Getting Started, is exactly what it says it is about. It is about getting started on an essay or paper and what strategies you should use. These strategies run from keeping heavy interest in your topic, to brain storming your topic, all of which are important to indeed start a paper. While reading over things like brain storming topics and general writing segments of this chapter, I found that I already knew how to do them. But other parts such as the one going over the understanding of genre and design I found helpful and interesting and slightly confusing. I like how it explains that I can search for pictures or columns to help enhance the evidence in my papers, but I still am not sure how many pictures I can use specifically. Having a set number would be good, but I assume I can use as much relevant pictures as I need to get the topic across. The only part of this I found redundant is that it goes without saying that your evidence needs to be neat and on topic. But the most helpful part of this chapter I found was the different kinds of methods I can use to find my topic. I have taken a liking to the form of looping, it is essentially free writing but you write for a set length of time and go back and read what you have written. I found that through this I am able to separate what a good topic is from a bad while at the same time having a rough draft that I can work with. All in all I found this introduction chapter mostly just a review and reminder on the strategies of writing a paper, but I did find some new things as well.