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Eight Questions to Help You Frame Your Paper
The gist of the exercise is that you have to answer each of these questions in 3 sentences or less. Once you can do that, the answers to these questions create the introduction to the paper and set up the paper’s frame.
Nine Questions:
1. Why is it important to study X? (X can be your IV or DV)
2. Who has studied X? That is, what fields, communities, or subdisciplines, if any, have studied X?
3. What do we clearly know about X? (for now 3 sentences but for your research proposal we need more…this is the lit review part)
4. What gaps exist in the literature that you hope to address? That is, what don’t we know? (In other words, what is your core, overarching research question?)
5. Why should we care about this gap/question? That is, why is it important to begin to address and close this gap / answer this question? (Because no one has done this before is not an adequate answer.)
6. What theoretical framework or prior research will you draw on to develop hypotheses that will allow you to close this gap / answer these questions? (can be completed by Nov 20)
7. In brief, what is your core idea? That is, what is your proposed answer to your question? (Fill in the blanks: Drawing on ____ (can be completed By Nov 20), I argue that _________ shapes ____________.. or answer a similarly worded question, please)
8. What is the contribution/significance of your study?
9. How will you test these ideas? (optional for this class)
*You must include a reference section
** You should properly cite your work..your work will be checked for plagiarism.
