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    This document provides writing prompts to help writers who feel unprepared to start writing. The prompts are divided into three sections for the beginning, middle, and end of a writing project. At the beginning, the prompts guide brainstorming about prior knowledge, importance, audience, and research questions. During research, they focus on interpreting primary and secondary sources and identifying how sources relate to research questions. Throughout the project, the prompts encourage reflection on arguments, evidence, unanswered questions, connections to other scholars, findings, and emotional responses to the project.

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    This document provides writing prompts to help writers who feel unprepared to start writing. The prompts are divided into three sections for the beginning, middle, and end of a writing project. At the beginning, the prompts guide brainstorming about prior knowledge, importance, audience, and research questions. During research, they focus on interpreting primary and secondary sources and identifying how sources relate to research questions. Throughout the project, the prompts encourage reflection on arguments, evidence, unanswered questions, connections to other scholars, findings, and emotional responses to the project.

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    Aigerim Aitbekova
    This document provides writing prompts to help writers who feel unprepared to start writing. The prompts are divided into three sections for the beginning, middle, and end of a writing project. At the beginning, the prompts guide brainstorming about prior knowledge, importance, audience, and research questions. During research, they focus on interpreting primary and secondary sources and identifying how sources relate to research questions. Throughout the project, the prompts encourage reflection on arguments, evidence, unanswered questions, connections to other scholars, findings, and emotional responses to the project.

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    When you think you’re not ready to write,

    try these writing prompts...

    At the beginning of your project:


    - What do I already know about this topic?
    - Why do I care about this topic?
    - Why is this topic important to people other than myself?
    - What more do I want to learn about this topic?
    - What is the main question that I am trying to answer?
    - Where can I look for additional information?
    - Who is my audience and how can I reach them?

    While researching:
    So, why did you write these notes? How can you interpret them?
    - Interpreting the context of a primary or secondary source:
    a. Who wrote the source?
    b. Why was it written? What was the agenda/argument behind the source?
    c. Is it reliable?
    d. How does it speak to other scholarship in the field?
    - Identifying the significance of a source:
    a. How does this source answer (or complicate) my guiding research questions?
    b. Does it pose new questions for my project? If so, which?

    Throughout your project:


    - What’s my main argument? How has it changed since I began the project?
    - What’s the most important evidence that I have in support of my “big point” at the
    moment?
    - What questions do my sources not answer?
    - Does my project reinforce or contradict noted scholars in my field? How?
    - What is the most surprising finding of my research so far?
    - What is the most frustrating part of this project?
    - What is the most rewarding part of this project?

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