Topic: Heuristic Questions
Thats my first Draft project.
Planning your Editorial: Heuristic Questions
Now that you’ve had a chance to read and analyze several newspaper
editorials (in print form/ blog form), you can begin to plan your own.
Below are some questions to help you get started. Respond to each with
as many points and observations as you can think of in order to have
the material you need to develop and organize your draft:
• What is your purpose for writing?
• What public issue or controversy occasions your writing?
• What will you claim on this issue?
• What reasons do you have for believing such a claim?
• What type of evidence do you have to support those reasons and your
claim? Where will ?it come from?
• What underlying assumptions do you hope the reader shares with you?
• What opposing views can you anticipate?
• What are you willing to acknowledge or validate in the opposing view?
• What reaction or solution do you hope to bring about through your
writing? ?
Once you have a satisfactory answer to each of the above questions, you
should be better able to begin drafting your editorial:
• Take those answers and develop them into a working thesis as well as
the essential parts (and paragraphs) of your editorial;
• Focus the draft by asserting your position early;
• Organize your points for emphasis;
• And remember to properly attribute and cite any outside evidence.
**Don’t forget to also refer to the main project guidelines before
commencing
