Before this course, I knew a fair amount about writing and the writing processes. I knew how to plan out an essay very well because I already knew the t-chart method as I have used it many times in the past. In the past, I would choose my topic for an essay and then look up the evidence for it. Whether or not there was enough evidence or I …show more content…
One of the exploratory writing techniques that I learned to use was to move slowly when I’m exploring an essay topic. I discovered that I need to keep myself open to exploring more than one idea for a topic so that I’m not stuck writing about something that has little to no evidence. I learned what an information sandwich was as well. Before this course, I struggled a little bit with including quotes or paraphrases correctly. I learned that to successfully include information into an essay the first step is to introduce the information, then to put the information itself, and then to explain the information. It helped me a lot when I was writing my research paper. I was able to include the information in a clear concise way that made sense and that was