Reading at bedfordstmartins.com got me focusing on how I will generate a quality research question. One thing in particular I will be examining when narrowing my topic and generating a question is my personal interests vs the needs and interests of my audience. So far, I have been trying to find a question that is interesting to ME. Reading this reminded me that I have to balance that against what will be interesting for my readers. I tend to get nerdy about the science stuff, and my audience is not the scientific community. I also noticed a trend of systematic narrowing of the paper's main topic. I'm going to apply that to my own process.
The Wadsworth reading brought up aspects of draft writing that I will be stewing on while working up to my first rough draft. Especially the idea that it is not intended to be a perfect piece of work. Keeping this in mind will help me to overcome any ideas of perfectionism that invade my drafting process. Wadsworth also suggests some revising tools that I have not used in the past, such as the "track changes" and "compare drafts" features of MS Word. I'm eager to explore these with timesaving results.
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