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This lesson describes two more techniques for generating ideas for
your essays: asking reporters’ questions and mapping.
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1. Who: Who is involved? At what level? Who is affected?
2. What: What is your topic? What is its significance? What is at stake? What are the issues?
3. Where: Where does your subject occur? Where is its source?
4. When: When does your topic occur? When did it begin/end? When must action be taken to deal
with it?
5. Why: Why is your subject of interest? Why did it develop as it did? Why should others be interested
in your topic?
If you are writing a research paper or other type of nonpersonal writing, and your topic is already selected
or assigned, concentrate on the standard W’s: who, what, where, when, and why. These questions will help you
quickly develop a great deal of information about your subject. Not every question will apply to every essay, and
the prompts that follow each W are meant to be taken as suggestions. Be flexible, and use the format as it best fits
your topic.
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