What is going on in the world that warrants your study?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is the current consensus or controversy about it in your discipline?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What does your paper tell us about it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What can be known about it without collecting new data?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What would we have expected of it if we didn’t have your data?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How did you collect your data?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What did you learn from your data?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What are the consequences for theory or practice?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The answers to these simple questions can guide your writing of a paper. In fact, if you give one paragraph to each of the first three, that’s your introduction. The rest of the questions are answered by your background, theory, methods, analysis, and discussion sections, respectively. I’ll write a bit more about this after Easter. But I didn’t want to keep the idea to myself over the long weekend. Comments and questions are welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What is going on in the world that warrants your study? What is the current consensus or controversy about it in your discipline? What does your paper tell us about it? What can be known about it without collecting new data? What would we have expected of it if we didn’t have your data? How … Continue reading Some Questions<\/span>