#### [[How to write a scholarly essay]] --- - Paragraph 1: Describe the gap in the literature you will address with your data. - What do we know? (Prior research tells us that …) - What do we not know? (And yet, we do not know …) - What do we suspect? (Given prior research, however, there is reason to suspect that …) - Paragraph 2: Identify your research question and explain how you answer it. - What question will you answer/hypothesis will you test? (This study examines that possibility. Specifically, I ask …) - What data will you use to answer this question? (To answer that question, I draw on data from …) - What do you find? (In analyzing those data, I find …) - Paragraph 3: Explain the importance of your findings. - What is your central argument (i.e., the answer to your research question)? (Given these findings, I argue that …) - How does this argument broaden, clarify, or challenge existing knowledge? (These findings are important in that they …) - What implications do your findings have for research/policy/practice? (With respect to research/policy/practice, these findings suggest that …) ([Location 3413](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0859PDXVX&location=3413)) --- Tags: Reference: Related: [[Zkn Questions Relevant Meaningfulness]]