Catherine Savini's Essay Analysis: Looking For Trouble

Looking for Trouble: Finding Your Way into a Writing Assignment” The following essay was written by Catherine Savini and was published in Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 2, which is a textbook for writing classes. This essay claims that in order to succeed in writing, a student first needs to identify a problem on the prompt. In other words, the student should seek on the prompt a part that intricate him, that makes him think critically about the prompt. Therefore, when the student finds the problem, questions regarding the problem will be formulated, which probably will be transformed in possible arguments. Savini, also describes problem as a process in which four steps should be followed. First comes the noticing, which is basically skim the text and look for keywords, patterns; then, there is articulating a problem and its details, which is just searching for tensions and making connections with other texts of the same genre. The third step is the posing of fruitful questions, which is basically coming up with questions that will originate a debatable argument and also bring an innovation to the topic in question. …show more content…
For instance, the life is a constant adaptation, and the most successful men are the ones that can deal with each problem they face in their lives. Just think on Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, to be where they are now first they needed to find a problem, which on that time was the lack of information technology in the world. Thanks to their ability to solve this problem, they became successful men. This ability to deal with problems is also known as integrative thinking and according to Roger Martin, Dean of the Roman School of Management at the University of Toronto, it is a skill ingrained in the mind of the successful leaders (Savini