Now that you have been researching for three weeks, you should be able to identify several key research terms you are using to look up sources and to organize your subject into areas of exploration. I expect to see four to eight terms that you are using. The heading for this section is Key Research Terms . Now it is time to state your rhetorical purpose, the writer's purpose which you imagine will carry into the paper itself. This paragraph will begin with defining what your research paper might accomplish.
All papers always explain, analyze and persuade to varying degrees and for different sub-topics.
This is when you should attempt a hypothesis or, if not that, a dominant question you imagine you might answer in your paper. This paragraph s heading will be Rhetorical Purpose . See the course project assignment for further description of these options. Use the heading Format here. Values are specific.