Research Audience

1. Choose a group of readers likely to be interested in your topic (like "college students" or "new parents") or choose a periodical or web site (like Cat Fancy or National Geographic), and list this audience at the top of page 1. Address your report specifically to that audience. 2. Before you begin your research, formulate a question about your topic to help guide your work. Your answer to this question will lead you to your thesis. Your report must have a narrowly focused subject and a clear statement about that subject. 3. If you want to write about a person, like Prince, please DO NOT write a full birth-to-death biography of that person. Instead, focus your essay on what made that person important. 4. To support your thesis, you must provide plentiful, plausible, and pertinent information. 5. If your source articles are thorough, you shouldn't need more than four, but feel free to find additional sources if you need more information. (See source notes below) 6. The organization of your report should be logical and appropriate to your subject (break your subject into groups, steps in a process, etc.) 7. Provide clear definitions for any terms your readers may not know. 8. This should NOT be a persuasive essay