Recognized subject matter experts: Who are they? What are they saying? What is being said about them?
Subject matter vocabulary: What’s the terminology of this world?
Symptoms and causes (problem paper): What are the effects of this problem? Who feels them most acutely? Why do these problems exist?
Summary of Literature (position papers): what are the prevailing arguments? Who are the prevailing voices? Literature here refers to published scholarship, not the literature we read in English class.
Audience Awareness: Who has the power to make a change? Why haven’t they done so already? What are the demographics of this group? Where might this audience read this essay? What can you learn about this group?
Instead of declaring an argument, the thesis for this essay should summarize the main point of the research you are sharing. Before you can contribute to the academic discourse (your research paper), you need to summarize the existing academic discourse (this survey of literature).
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