Limiting or Expanding a Topic
Review!
When choosing a topic to write about, you may need to limit or expand the focus of your topic to suit the assignment.
Useful strategies include freewriting, discovering what you know or think about a topic by writing rapidly, without stopping; and clustering, organizing related ideas in a word web.
Practice
Directions: Read the assignment below. Explore the topic, using the strategies you studied in this lesson. Then limit or expand to find a focused topic for the assignment. Show your work in the space below.
Topic: Architecture
Assignment: 2- to 3-page paper
Assignment: 2- to 3-page paper
1. Notes on topic:
2. Focused topic:
Category:
Writing