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Pose a good question for yourself. Make this the title for a document in Docs. Freewrite for 10 or 15 minutes. If you find them helpful, use these sentence starters.

Write a Focused Sentence. That is: write a perfectly written, opinionated sentence that re-states your entire freewrite.

Freewrite again this time starting with the Focused Sentence.

Write 5 tags for this doc.

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Something that I have been interested in learning more about has been <something specific>. I remember <someone you know> talking about it <when?>, but <explain why you didn't learn more at that time>. Lately, the issue has caught my eye again. I know that many people feel that <what do some people say about this issue?>. From what I have heard, <what do you know about this issue?> For example, I heard that <be specific with one expample of what you have heard.> Now that's just what I've heard, it may or may not be true.

One thing that I know for sure about <your subject> is that <be specific>. Now I've studied my share of <Put a subject here, for example: U.S.History, Biology, Environmental Science, Religion, Philosophy, Music, Sports...>, and <make a claim about your topic. What do you believe?> Personally, it's funny to me how <explain how what you are studying is a pattern that you've noticed before.>

<Your Subject> <was / was not> <explain what was important about this topic in the past.> <In two or three more sentences, explain everything you know about this topic.>

Being that I didn't have a lot of background information on <your subject.>, I chose to do some research on the topic. As I searched for blogs and news articles on Google, I came across this one article: <Title and link to the article.> This article provided a lot of information and opinions on <your subject>. Some people felt that <your subject> were <summarize some facts from your article.> <Insert a quote from the article.> This <statement/statistic> didn't really surprise me all that much, but it did make me feel <emotion>. <Write 2 or 3 more sentences, expaining why you feel the way you do.>

In another article, <Title and link to another article.> there was this one statement that made me <nod my head in agreement / shake my head in disagreement> with the writer. It was: <Insert a second quote from the article.> This is so <true / untrue>, because <expalin why you think and why in 3 or 4 more sentences.>

All of this makes me think that <write 3 or 4 more sentence summarizing what you learned from reading these articles.>

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