Tips and Hacks

Once you’ve defined your main claim or research question, you will be able to pick and choose how you will support that claim or answer that question by choosing points, sources and evidence that best addresses these.

Use the concept map to visual the relationships between your initial ideas. Don’t be afraid of eliminating ideas that seem related to the larger concept but don’t fit well with the rest of the ideas. Note that you are writing about one aspect of this topic and you cannot include everything.

Make an outline based on the choices you have made so far. This outline will be the skeleton of the paper. It must be well thought out, and must always refer back to the main point.