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. |
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|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. |
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|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. |
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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.