The Hunt Is On: Introduction
Pack your bags, put on your walking shoes, and roll up your tent. You are about to embark on a journey that starts with the writing process (and some curiosity) and ends with enlightenment (if you are very lucky.)
After completing the interest survey, you hopefully have a few possible topics rolling around in your head that you might turn into a solid research topic.
Maybe you aren’t really sure that you are completely sold on INFORMING others about the reproductive rituals of poisonous spiders.
Maybe you would rather PERSUADE your audience that extreme sports are great for people over the age of 50.
Perhaps your interests are more personal or EXPRESSIVE, and you want to know more about your great great aunt Zelda who was a famous nightclub singer in a speakeasy owned by Bugsy Malone.
On the other hand, maybe you want to ENTERTAIN the world with a screenplay about brothers who fought in the Civil War on opposite sides.
Whatever ideas you are tossing around; you need to be considering your purpose right now at the starting gate. For which purpose will you do research: to inform, to persuade, to entertain or to express yourself?
This section will help you choose a topic that you always wanted to know about, because nothing is more exciting than the process of discovery—unless it’s sharing that discovery with others.
