Susan's Responses in WyzAnt Answers

Anne,

It's important when setting a scene of any kind to play to readers' emotions and create an image, so your story can play in their mind's eye while reading.  The best way to practice doing this is by incorporating each of the senses into your story, starting with the introduction.  What did she hear "thumping" around outside or down stairs?  Did she smell something strange that alarmed her?  Did she feel something scary in her house... her bathtub eerily and strangely overflowing so she walked into the bathroom stepping on the unusually wet floor? Did she see an image (of a shadow, a person, a zombie) in the mirror behind while brushing her teeth or a person climbing through the bathroom window? Taste may not work here at this point in the story, but may come later unless her toothpaste creepily tasted like candy or brains or_____... did the intruder or monster switch it out when she wasn't looking?

~Susan

I agree with Debra.  It looks like this question is coming from the directions of a research paper and your teacher is asking you to mention specific sources, so that you know you aren't just getting one perspective on the topic.  I would be sure to use at least one primary and one secondary source and then from there you can vary to a newspaper article, book, online article(s), etc.  AND cite sources! Word 2007 can help you with this. :-)

~Susan