Today we welcome a return visit from Jennifer Ahern-Dodson, assistant professor of The Practice in Writing Studies at Duke University in North Carolina.Ms. Ahern-Dodson serves as outreach director and language arts and media program director for the university's Thompson Writing Program.She helps many students and professors organize writing groups.Jennifer Ahern-Dodson says that probably everyone has had difficulty writing an essay or paper at some time.She says when writing seems easy, it is usually because he or she has something important to say.Today she provides some tips about how to get those important points into the computer.Suppose you have done some research for your paper, but you still have more research to do.Ms. Ahern-Dodson says try some writing before you're ready to write the completed paper."Don't wait until you've done all the research for the research paper or you've figured out in your head exactly what you want to say before you get started.Sometimes just stopping in the middle and writing something about where you are at that moment,you can discover your ideas and think about what you want to express or understand."
