A better process is as follows: you collect all of the information as before. You then read and think. You think about what the information you are reading means to you. You search for other bits of literature that relate to the ideas that your reading provokes. What you are searching for is your key message, a story that you want to tell, or a pos...
Here are a few essay titles that represent different levels of development of the key message: The scientific method — this just describes the topic, and the essay will likely just be a description of the general facets of the scientific method (e.g. focus on evidence, experimentation, objectivity, etc); Objectivity in science — a more specific es...
Once you have your key message, there is a little bit more thinking to do. You now need to think about the best way to tell the story. Essentially, you know what your conclusion is, and you need to work out the best way to get there.
we all have plenty of original and independent stories ready to go. Just think about an issue that you feel passionately about.
We need to approach any writing task as if we were writing a ‘ranty’ email or internet reply to someone who has just disagreed with us on a topic we feel passionately about.
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