prompts for prewriting

List as many of the arguments you saw in your space as you can think of. What is your space trying to prove about itself?

What are the 2-3 central/most interesting/most powerful arguments from that list? Why do those stand out?

Who are the target audiences for those arguments? How do the arguments change based on different target audiences?

From your 2-3 arguments and the audiences, begin to refine the ideas into a single controlling idea for your paper. What is your purpose? Or what do you plan to focus on?

Based on your general controlling idea (which may change over time), choose a moment where that argument(s) was especially clear. Paint a word picture of that moment using sensory details and lots of description.

Organization:

• And Then: chronological or spatial
• Argument -->Inference/Analysis: discuss for each of 2-3 arguments you’re focusing on
• Differences by Audiences: choose major 1-2 arguments and address how that argument and its methods change based varying audiences