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How can you narrow your topic to a single spoke or to a sub-header spoke on a map? How does this type of prewriting activity prepare you for outlining?By an accident of search engine behaviour, we have a lot of people asking us how to narrow their topics to a single spoke or to a sub-header spoke on a map. Even though these questions have been posted in an English language forum, we have have tried to find the exact answer, without any success. The people asking the question all seem to come from Axia College/Phoenix University, so it is clearly a question they are pasting from an assignment into the search engines word for word. We have tried posting sticky answers saying that we do not have the exact answer and giving a few links to relevant sites, but these are ignored and we are asked about single spokes and sub-headers several times a month. It does not matter how many times we say that we don't know; all answers we have given are ignored and they keep posting the same question. It is worrying that people studying at degree level seem to lack the research skills to look at previous answers and keep posting the same question. However, for Axia/Phoenix students coming to us for the first time, we do not have a straight answer to question about how to narrow your topics to a single spoke or to a sub-header spoke on a map. You can find a few links here, here and here. However, you will not find a straight answer to the question anywhere. Furthermore, your questions are simply skewing the results in search engines, so it would make more sense if you worked on those research skills in order to find a clear answer. If one of you returned with a clear answer once you had been taught it, it would help, but I am really not waiting with bated breath. 4 CommentsLeave a comment | |
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Wordy McWord!!
In a way I feel badly for these students, if that's the level of guidance/assistance they're getting for their college tuition dollars. But on the other hand, they certainly should've learned some research skills back in elementary school.
That's the problem - 'research skills back in elementary school'. All they learn today is that the Internet is a panacea. (Is my age showing? ;-))
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I would like to say that I am a student of the above mentioned school. The students who have posted this question should have read ALL course materials and not tried to "cheat". I am in my second week of this particular class and all I had to do was actually take the time to read to figure the answer out. I find it appalling that some would try to have someone else do the work for them. I am choosing to post my answer here, maybe allowing people to see that it is not a bad program, just has some lazy people in it. Sad *shakes head* very sad!
How can you narrow your topic to a single spoke or to a sub-header of a spoke on the map?
There are some many different directions I could actually go with this particular subject. Outsourcing affects all of us in ways that we can't see at the moment. I would say that the best way for me to narrow my topic down to a single spoke would be to choose one area to hit on and stick with that. I could look at any of the initial thoughts and find one that generates the most ideas and just go with that one.
How does this type of prewriting activity prepare you for outlining?
It helps you to learn how to effectively organize all of your thought into one central location. From there, you are able to decide the most important detail that you want to expand upon and stick to that area. That way your thoughts will not be all over the place, making it difficult to center your essay.
Had I not done this exercise, I would not have had one clue about where to start. Now that I know where to start, it leaves me with an idea of where to end.
Christen,
Thank you very much indeed for your answer. Enjoy your course.