Draft:
Gather background information and look up key terms and concepts. Make sure you have a clear understanding of the topic.
Brainstorm about the topic and try to narrow it down as much as possible. Look for a direction of inquiry that you find interesting and challenging. Write down some questions that you would like to explore (questions you don’t know the answers to). Try to formulate open-ended questions (“How?” “Why?” “What?”), as opposed to binary yes/no questions.
The submission:
Formulate a research question and perform a database search using the library research strategies.
Evaluate the search results, and choose three relevant and interesting peer-reviewed articles that can be used in an essay.
Read these three articles and summarize the main point of each article in 1-2 sentences.
The paper should include only the research question + the short summary of the three articles.
