Jago Chapter 6

Subject and topic usage is somethings students really struggle with. While subject topics should leave room for a student to inject their own opinion and ideas, they often struggle with were to begin if they are not given any direction.Therefore, I feel it's completely useful to give students some idea of what they should be attempting to do with their subject. Extremly open-ended topics can be useful in higher level writing classes, but they are tough on students who are just learning how to write with a constructed argument. There's always that fear from students that goes something like: "I want to know what the teacher wants me to write". This is somethings that's dangerous, but understandable at the younger writer level and should be given some mercy on. For this reason, students should be given questions that help tolead rather than one's that are ambiguous.