Coming Up With Your Topic Pavel Sorokin Gyeongsang National University Technical Writing for Information Science

2 types of theories You should know how to read papers with a different “lenses”, it will help to understand text in new ways feminism criticism Marxist criticism psycho-analytic criticism new historicalism deconstruction reader-response criticism Even if you're not throughly familiar with this theories, you can make them work for you Using critical theory

3 Feminist criticism Invites readers to consider women’s role within a text, event, place, or culture. To examine how texts perpetuate patriarchal attitudes and male-dominated power structures. Marxist criticism Invites the reader to view a text in economic terms, focusing on the issues of privilege and power Psycho-analytic criticism This school of criticism tries to understand a text in terms of a writer’s or a character’s neurosis Using critical theory

4 New historicalism Claims that no text can be understood without examining its historical situation, or context Deconstruction Argue that every text have a contradictions, that author did not intend. Deconstructionist argue against the possibility of a text having any single meaning Reader-Response Meaning is not created by the writer along. Every text have a gaps, and readers should make all connections, fill in spaces, and so on. Readers complete meaning. Using critical theory

5 What to do if after reading a text you don't have any ideas of worth writing or you found an idea for writing but you've not yet discovered how you might develop this idea In that case you can try one of the following strategies: Informal strategies for invention Brainstorming Freewriting Discovery draft In any point of writing process you can stop and use these methods All methods uses without any pressure of structure, grammar or style

6 Brainstorming Quick and efficient way of laying out what you know about subject and also what you don't know about it. Informal strategies for invention It is an informal strategy of invention The notes can be general or specific. The notes can be wide-ranging and associative, or they can be focused on specific problem. The notes can be simple as lists of single words, or like unpolished paragraphs that briefly explore an idea. FREEWRITING It is just writing of any mind without any attention to syntax or grammar It looks like a diagram with associations Discovery draft It is like freewriting with agenda Writing discovery draft – like writing a letter to imaginary friend

7 Formal strategies uses more systematic approach to coming up with ideas Five W's and an H Formal strategies for invention Just ask questions like Who? What? When? Where? Why? and How? When the answer comes too easily, you are on familiar ground. When you ask a question that initially confuses you that real thinking and real writing begin. Tagmemics It is a system that allows to look at single object from three different perspectives 1 As a particle(as a thing in itself) 2 As a wave(as a thing changing over time) 3 As part of a field (as a thing in its context)