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Skimming<\/h2>\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\nSometimes just looking online at a news site, or skimming a newspaper or a magazine can help you generate an idea that might be useful for essay development.\u00a0 Skimming can be a form of prewriting, although you definitely will go back and forth between\u00a0skimming and other prewriting strategies, such as brainstorming, making a list, or more.\r\n\r\nIf you can't identify a focus for an essay through other prewriting strategies, skim a newspaper, magazine, blog, or website,\u00a0something in which the writer offers his or her own thoughts and assertions about an issue.\u00a0\u00a0Does any\u00a0article immediately interest you?\u00a0\u00a0Can you easily identify\u00a0some personal thoughts about the same issue, or about a related issue that occurred to you as you skimmed the publication?\r\n\r\nSkimming may lead to a closer reading of the text, and may lead into the prewriting strategy of responding to a text.\u00a0 Or it may simply jog your thinking about possible topics.\u00a0 Either outcome is fine, as a way of generating some ideas for writing.\u00a0Once you have an idea, go back to other prewriting strategies and use what makes sense to you to help develop that idea further.\r\n\r\nThe following video explains how to skim effectively.\r\n\r\n[embed]https:\/\/youtu.be\/u5-EIeXskOs[\/embed]\r\n\r\n \r\n

Responding to a Text<\/h2>\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\nMany writers develop ideas from reading. For example, what do you think about a recent magazine article about manufacturers moving out of the U.S. to keep costs down (to pay workers $1.00 a day instead of $18.00 per hour)? What do you think about a newspaper editorial that is for\/against quotas to ensure equal employment? What do you think about the idea, offered in a college textbook, that the U.S. is a society dominated by a traditional class structure? Reading can spark lots of ideas for writing, and it's a sure bet that you will be asked to respond to certain assigned college readings with your own ideas.\r\n\r\nYou can prewrite for an essay by writing your ideas down as you read, which is called annotating a text. Record your thoughts in the margins. Agree or disagree with others' ideas, and jot down your reasons. Jot down questions that occur to you as you read. In essence, carry on your own dialogue with the writer of the text, as though you were talking with him or her, and write that dialogue down so you can retrieve it later on.\r\n\r\nThe following video offers strategies for annotating a text.\r\n\r\n[embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JtRGUNo2pck[\/embed]\r\n\r\n(Responding to a Text \u00a9 Empire State College, written by Susan Oaks & Elaine Handley)","rendered":"

Skimming<\/h2>\n

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Sometimes just looking online at a news site, or skimming a newspaper or a magazine can help you generate an idea that might be useful for essay development.\u00a0 Skimming can be a form of prewriting, although you definitely will go back and forth between\u00a0skimming and other prewriting strategies, such as brainstorming, making a list, or more.<\/p>\n

If you can’t identify a focus for an essay through other prewriting strategies, skim a newspaper, magazine, blog, or website,\u00a0something in which the writer offers his or her own thoughts and assertions about an issue.\u00a0\u00a0Does any\u00a0article immediately interest you?\u00a0\u00a0Can you easily identify\u00a0some personal thoughts about the same issue, or about a related issue that occurred to you as you skimmed the publication?<\/p>\n

Skimming may lead to a closer reading of the text, and may lead into the prewriting strategy of responding to a text.\u00a0 Or it may simply jog your thinking about possible topics.\u00a0 Either outcome is fine, as a way of generating some ideas for writing.\u00a0Once you have an idea, go back to other prewriting strategies and use what makes sense to you to help develop that idea further.<\/p>\n

The following video explains how to skim effectively.<\/p>\n