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Ensuring Privacy & Safety when Dealing with Sensitive Information Discussion
My topic is about ways we can ensure privacy and safety when we deal with our personal and sensitive information.
1) First discussion: Humor me a bit here: If you were Eula Biss, the writer of this essay (Links to an external site.), and I asked you what it was about, what would you say? Do you think “phone poles” would be an adequate response? Why / not?
How might you specifically apply your responses to the above questions to your own topic? If I ask you what you’re writing about and tell you that you cannot respond with your topic (“phone poles”), what might you say instead?
Another way of putting it:
You’re not only writing about what you’re writing about (X); rather, you’re also writing about what it means (Y).
X = phone poles
Y = ?
It’s pre-algebra, eh? Solve for Y in this essay, and more importantly, take that idea and apply it to your own topic.
Once you’ve done so, your writing and your research opens up to Y and isn’t simply limited to X.
Carry these ideas over to our other discussion this week.
2) Second discussion: You’re not only writing about what you’re writing about; you’re also writing about what it means. Wrap your head around that phrase for a time, and then post a bit about what sense it does or doesn’t make to you:
- What are your initial reactions?
- Reactions upon further thought?
Then, get concrete with it:
- carry over your topic lists (or any new ideas you may have since found) and apply this phrase to a few of the topics you’ve listed as potential focuses for your project.
I cannot say it enough that I’m not interested in right or wrong, at least not yet. Rather, this is an opportunity to wrap your mind around a useful concept that you will use as a writer now and down the line (if you struggle with thesis writing–and I do–this concept is at the heart of the process). Take this forum as a safe place to fumble through a new concept with incredibly low stakes!
Understanding this concept will directly apply to the following:
- thesis writing
- diversifying your research (you’ll research what you’re writing about (the topic) and what it really means (the controlling idea).
- using the thesis to revise your writing/ideas
