Moving On from a Thesis
Questions:
- How can we move on from here?
- What are some methods that people use to draft their essays?
- What are some metaphors, and what are our own "Geneologies" of composition that we can examine to make us better writers?
Maybe in previous CS units you've been introduced to the idea of "Metacognition" -- a term that refers to "thinking about thinking". This is a sort of entry point to genealogical investigation, allowing us to uncover the roots of our linguistic, typographical, and grammatical habits, which are often cultural and, in a way, truly genealogical as well as philosophically genealogical.
Take a moment to analyze your own thesis.
How do you imagine an essay beginning to form from this single sentence or set of sentences? Does it branch out from a particular word or phrase? Does it emerge from the idea as a web of thoughts? Does it follow some type of map? Is it step by step, logical, like a math problem? Is it organic? Fluid? Notional? A combination of these ideas? Do you move through notes to an outline to a paragraph structure? Do you just start writing from the first word? Do you sometimes do one thing and other times do another?
Where does research come into the process? Is it an ongoing aspect of the writing, or do you fully research the topic before you even get started?
When do you feel like a first draft is complete?
