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Chapter 5: Selecting a Topic a Purpose, Chapter 6: Analyzing the Audience …

- - - - make a quick inventory of your experiences. from this list may come a general subject area out of which you can fashion a specific topic.
    - - divide themes into people, places, things, events, processes, concepts, natural phenomena, problems, and plans & policies. then list the first things that come to mind in each theme.
        
        take the themes you find most intriguing and compose sublists for each of them. write words that each theme triggers in your mind.
    - - browse through a subject-based web site, an online encyclopedia, or some other reference portal until you come across what might be a good topic.