Chapter 1 Connections

After reading chapter 1, I realized that it was describing exactly what we are doing when it comes to what stage we are on in our final paper. Ideally we are in the very beginning stages of our research paper which brings on the challenge of picking a topic. One of the major focuses of this chapter is "choosing a promising and appropriate topic". It explains how to do so, and gives criteria that the topic should meet. Another thing I thought was helpful from this chapter is how it talked about how to write your paper like a form of conversation. Overall this chapter reflected pretty much exactly what we have been doing in class.