How to Ask Questions to Arm Yourself With Complete Information
By: Jane Sumerset
Submitted: 2010-04-15 18:39:04 | Word Count: 516
Writing can be so easy if you know what your topic is all about. You will find yourself constantly writing for certain ideas that fit with your subject. It is pretty amazing how your mind works indefinitely and creatively as what you want your content appears to be. But that will only happen if you are in the mood for writing and that you understand the topic well.
What if you don’t know much about the given topic? How are you going to keep that juices flowing? Are there any words which continuously flow out of your mind? How are you going to make your text an interesting one? First of all, after receiving your own topic, all you need to do is to dig up for more information that will answer your query about the subject. There are a lot of facts over the internet and a lot of perspective where different people shared it to the public.
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By then, you will have an idea on what to do. However, there are instances that you feel like you still don’t understand the topic well. To make things look clearer into your mind, you need to ask certain and specific questions about the things that you wanted to know to expert people who know something about your topic. Being eager to ask questions to the public will help you in your written piece. It’s an alternative way to gather information that will solve your uncertainty regarding your topic.
To arrive at a complete story during your research, you have to ask the right questions. For a complete picture, all five W’s must be accounted for – what, who, where, when and why. Some subjects will even require a sixth question, the “how”.
If you’re doing research papers, news pieces and other types of non personal writing (i.e. focus is on subject, rather than your thoughts on it), asking the standard questions is as basic as the process gets.
• What is the topic?
• Who are involved?
• Where does it happen?
• When does it happen?
• Why should the reader be interested?
Using these standard questions, you can quickly collect most of the information necessary to put the piece together. Sure, you’ll need to expand on the details for each one, but you rarely need to vary beyond that.
When composing a more personal piece, however (such as an opinion essay or a book review), the standard questions usually won’t suffice when building a complete picture. For the most part, you will have to change the questions to both seek out information, while examining your own thought processes. Collecting external information is only one part of the equation; drawing your own conclusions based on them is just as crucial.
During the proofing process, apart from working with your editing software, make sure to reexamine these questions and whether they have, indeed, allowed you to compile all the necessary information to complete the picture for the reader. Don’t be afraid to ask a few more if you find it to be necessary.
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