Maniac Monday

It’s time to get a little crazy. It is my belief that if you’re ever going to produce something valuable, you have to go a little insane in the process. No rules, no long moments of contemplation, just rapid fire thinking by writing.

Please number your points of interest, one through six, on your chart. Begin trying to think in terms of body paragraphs—how might you divide up your evidence into three body paragraphs.

-Start jotting down similarities between ideas/rhetorical devices

-What patterns do you notice about your points of evidence or the rhetorical devices you looked at

-What interests you about the work you collected

-Develop charts, lists, webs that will help you break down the ideas you want to explore

Some of your evidence might not work as you get a clearer sense of the direction you’re going in. That’s okay. Get rid of it.  Dive back into the text and sniff around for evidence that will support your claims.