Appendix D

Associate Program Material Appendix D Selecting a Topic and Brainstorming Worksheet Complete the following and post as an attachment. |List two objects, people, subjects, or concepts you are going to | | |compare and/or contrast. | | | |Hamburgers,French fries, Milk shakes | |What are the similarities between the two objects, people, |They’re both fresh.They’re both fast food. | |subjects, or concepts? List as many similarities as you can. | | |What are the differences between the two objects, people, |Burger king has onion rings and frozen slushy’s. | |subjects, or concepts? List as many differences as you can. | | |Are you going to focus on similarities, differences, or both? | | |Explain your rationale. Im going to do both because they are both good resturaunts but I | | |prefer certain items from both resturaunts. | | | | |What do you want your readers to learn and understand after |After reading my essay I want you to learn the healthy foods from| | reading your essay? What is the purpose of your essay? the bad foods at the resturauns and the different services you | | |receive. | | | | | | | |What three or four parallel points of comparison and/or contrast |The neatness of the sandwhiches. The grease they use to cook | |will you address in your essay? For example, if you were going to|their foods.The customer service you receive. The score from the| |compare and contrast two teachers, your parallel points might be |inspectors for their cleaness. | |each teacher’s homework policy, classroom conduct policy, and | | |demeanor. | | |Explain why this is an appropriate and workable topic selection | | |for the final assignment. Because there are so many different things in the fast food | | |business some people are filthy and people actually are eating | | |the foods they don’t really take the time to research the | | |background of where there meats are coming from if they are | | |processed or what. | | | Reflect on what you learned in Ceridwen Dovey’s video. Write a 100- to 150-word paragraph describing how your own writing process is changing as you complete the activities in this course. My own process is changing because I am getting a lot of good advice from the videos and my fellow classmates.They are giving such great ideas on how to write a good paper. I think that my writing is going to be good because I have a lot of good methods that I’ve always used like brainstorming and clustering and I think that those methods on top of the ones I’ve learned from the videos and classmates is going to give me the capability of writing a perfect paper that is in sequence order with the subject and each paragraph will stick to the topic and not jump to a different subject.