NARROWING HW
Narrow EACH to the 6th level AND Put into argumentative form the
following topics:
1) Government
2) War in
3) Diabetes in children
4) education
5.Choose ANY single Topic from the 100 topics list.
I. N
1)Topics are narrowed based on your intended audience. Why? Imagine a topic appropriate for a new nursing student. For a new nursing student, something such as ‘How to draw blood’ might be appropriate and new.
Now imagine a topic appropriate for someone who has been a nurse for 20 years. Would drawing blood be an appropriate topic for someone with this much experience? Of course not. A more appropriate topic, new to them, for someone with this much experience, could be something complex, such as “How to use a FACI Spectrometer to gain a blood sample in a hemophiliac patient.”
Look at the table below. Each level of education requires you to narrow the starting general topic, 1 more level. For example, if your audience is a high school audience, you need to take a topic to level 3, meaning narrow that topic 2 times deeper than the original, most general topic (level 1). If your audience is college level of education, you need to narrow the topic to level 6: meaning narrow that topic 5 times more than the original, most general topic (level 1).
FOR BOTH PAPERS YOU WILL NARROW TOPIC TO THE 6 th level of education.
SEE II. BELOW FOR EXAMPLES and HOW TO NARROW.
Levels of Resolution for Narrowing Topics based on Audience:
Your Target experience and education level EXAMPLE OF NARROWED TOPIC
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1)TV NEWS |
General Topic: Cigarettes |
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2)Book Report |
Smoking Cigarettes |
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3)Encyclopedia Article/ (high school) |
Risks of Smoking Cigarettes |
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4)Newspaper article/ (high school to college) |
Risks to women smoking cigarettes |
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5)Special interest /(general college) "Discovery mag" |
Risks to pregnant women smoking cigarettes |
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6)Specialist I (college/professional) |
Risk of birth defects in pregnant women who smoke cigarettes |
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7)Specialist II (4 yr major/intern/trainee) |
The risk of infants being born blind to pregnant women who smoke cigarettes |
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8)Specialist III (basic grad/1-5 years experience) |
The risk of infants being born blind to pregnant women who smoke cigarettes in their first trimester |
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9)Researcher I (MA-PhD/3-7yr experience/manager) |
Reducing the risk of infants being born blind to pregnant women who smoked cigarettes during their first trimester |
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10)Researcher II (Phd level/5-10yr experience/ manager w/experience |
Prenatal care as a way to reduce the risk of infants being born blind to pregnant women who smoked cigarettes during their first trimester |
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11)Master level (teacher/PhD+experience/5-15 yrs experience/dept head/project leader) |
Prenatal lipil supplements as the best way to reduce the risk of infants being born blind to pregnant women who smoked cigarettes during their first trimester |
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12)Theoretical (leader in field/10-20yrs experience/VP+ |
Prenatal lipil supplements as the best way to reduce the risk of infants being born blind to malnourished pregnant women who smoked cigarettes during their first trimester |
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II. HOW TO NARROW FOR YOUR PAPERS:
Level 1 is always the most general form of the topic you are interested in exploring. Even if your intended topic is complex (for example, ‘The use of computer animation to simulate accidents in a court case” ), level 1 IS ALWAYS THE MOST GENERAL TOPIC/SUBJECT your topic could fall under (in the same previous example, level 1 would be computer or animation.).
To get to LEVEL 6:
WRITE your level 1 most general form of the topic. Next, YOU ALWAYS REPEAT THE PREVIOUS LEVEL WHEN NARROWING, and keep going until you reach level 6. To narrow, choose one thing about the previous level and add a WHO-WHAT-WHERE-WHEN-HOW-WHY-SPECIFIC DETAIL etc.
for example: see below:
level 1: computers
level 2: computer animation [repeated level 1 and then narrowed it further]
level 3: use of computer animation [repeated level 2 and then narrowed it further]
level 4: the use of computer animation to simulate [repeated level 3 and then narrowed it further]
level 5: the use of computer animation to simulate accidents [repeated level 4 and then narrowed it further]
level 6: the use of computer animation to simulate accidents in court cases [repeated level 5 and then narrowed it further]
level 6 is your target: then you have to put into argumentative form (see lessons).
TWO MORE NARROWING
EXAMPLES:
EXAMPLE ONE: Student wanted to do some topic about “corruption and elections”
Level 1: politics [remember: start with the most general topic]
Level 2: elections [this is level 2 – you need to get to level 6 to get your topic ready for ENG102]
Level 3: corruption in elections
Level 4: bribery in AZ elections [didn’t need to repeat corruption since you got specific, that is, ‘bribery’]
Level 5: bribery in AZ senate elections
Level 6: lobbyists and bribery in AZ’s senate elections
Then you put topic into argumentative form: for example: “Bribery in AZ’s senate elections has been legitimized by the lobbyist system”
EXAMPLE TWO: Student wanted to do some topic about “video games”
Level 1: games [remember: start with the most general topic]
Level 2: video games [this is level 2 – you need to get to level 6 to get your topic ready for ENG102]
Level 3: violence in video games
Level 4: effect of violence in video games
Level 5: effect of violence in video games on children
Level 6: negative effects of violence in video games on children
Then you put topic into argumentative form: for example: “Acting out violence against others is a direct negative effect of children being exposed to violence in video games”
FOR BOTH YOUR
PAPERS, YOU WILL NARROW YOUR TOPIC IDEA TO THE 6 th
LEVEL, then put into argumentative form, and submit, showing all
your work, for approval!
****NARROWING TO THE
6 th level is the MOST
important lesson to master in the first half of ENG102. PR