1) Create a new doc in your WP2 folder in your course Google Drive folder, call it “Keyword

Search Document” and copy and paste the material from this doc into that doc.
2) Explore your topics by experimenting with keyword searches using the CompPile
Database. This database is focused specifically on topics in Writing Studies. Record the
keyword you tried and the results the keyword gave you.

TOPIC IDEA #1: How teachers use fiction to teach writing

KEYWORD TRIED RESULTS OF SEARCH
(how many results, copy and paste any
interesting articles you find)

teaching+writing+fiction 1

fiction+writing 175

Creative writing 281

Fiction+teacher 11

Fiction+teach 681

Creative-writing+teacher 32

TOPIC IDEA #2: Transnational and multilingual student needs and interests
KEYWORD TRIED RESULTS OF SEARCH
(how many results, copy and paste any
interesting articles you find)

TOEFL 88

Second language+english 24

Multilingual+english 62
Multilingual+transnational 9

Transnational 131

International student 96

Multilingual 811

TOPIC IDEA #3: How people write scripts for speeches

KEYWORD TRIED RESULTS OF SEARCH
(how many results, copy and paste any
interesting articles you find)

Speech+script 13

Speech+writing 197

Speech+speak 22

Speech-composing 13

Write+speak 327

Public-speaking 42