Crazy enough, I have this problem sometimes also: sitting down to write a paper and just being so overwhelmed with it all, that I just can't start with just one topic, moreover, the introduction... i hate introductions ah. I thought Jago had a lot of good points though, that sometimes prompts are a little bit confusing for students. Making it one sentence, like she suggests makes so much more sense and must be way easier when writing a paper for students. Making a long prompt into a short one was definetly harder than I thought though, using her prompt 3 that she gave us to think about how to shorten and such... its difficult trying to get a whole paragraph of questions into one.
I really liked how she made it easier for a class to write an essay by having them freewrite in class and discuss in groups. Discussing in small groups would most definetly help each person develop a thesis or one idea to build on for their paper.
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I'm having the same problem myself with the prospectus for my dissertation. My advisor is getting annoyed with me.
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