The Manager's Pocket Guide to Effective Writing

Writing Workshop #5Hunting

Now that you’ve completed your survey, you’re ready to begin filling in the holes—the gaps you may have found in your writing. To make the job of filling those holes easier, follow these steps in the process called Hunting.

Objectives

1.    To record relevant information from resources.

2.    To collect sufficient information for your piece of writing.

Activities

STEP 1

Interview people who know about your topic. Find an expert or two and get some leads before you go to the library.

STEP 2

Review your notes and interviews, and try to write one sentence that focuses your thoughts on the topic—your thesis sentence. To help, finish this sentence: In this paper I will prove that__________. A thesis sentence tells you and ...