Narrowing a Topic

ENG/101 Version 6

Associate Program Material

Narrowing a Topic
Example Worksheet
Review the following example worksheet:
What general topic have you selected?

Education

What components, or subtopics, are related

to this topic?

What particular aspect of this topic

interests you most?

Multiple intelligences
Classroom management
Importance of higher education
Benefits of higher education
Elementary school
Standardized testing
Parental involvement

Classroom management

What is your purpose or goal for writing an

essay on this topic?

To explain to the reader the various methods of

classroom management used in the
elementary-school classroom

What questions do you want to answer or

address in the essay?

What styles of classroom management

exist?
What effect does classroom management
have on the classroom?

What is your narrowed topic choice for final

expository essay?

Classroom management in the elementaryschool classroom

Is your topic still too broad for the length of

the paper? Explain your answer. If so, how
might you narrow it further?

No, I think my narrowed topic would be

acceptable for the length of the final paper. I
will be able to explain the various types of
classroom-management styles and explain the
effect that they have on the classroom.

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ENG/101 Version 6

Expository Essay Topic: Option 1 Worksheet

If you selected Option 1 for this assignment, complete the following worksheet:
What general topic have you selected?

Stop and Frisk Law in New York City

What components, or subtopics, are related

to this topic?

How mayor and commissioner dont see what

wrong with the system

What particular aspect of this topic

interests you most?

How with this program you can reduced crime

by x amount percent by always checking
people making people aware that cops are
everywhere making then think twice to commit
a crime

What is your purpose or goal for writing an

essay on this topic?

My goal is for people to have a better

understanding about this but at the same
opening people eyes that maybe the media
might not be saying the whole thing or is really
the program that dont work with that model

What questions do you want to answer or

address in the essay?

Why is it only targeted at blacks and Hispanic

why white which they say they do but the
percentage is very low also why there hasant
been a reform a new way to do it

What is your narrowed topic choice for final

expository essay?

Make a effective change and re work the

program or take it out completely

Is your topic still too broad for the length of

the paper? Explain your answer. If so, how
might you narrow it further?

No Is not