question? How might they respond to your argument? Will they trust your evidence? Will they have other evidence in mind?
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I’m working on X because I want to find out Y, so that I (and you) can better understand Z
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Data are inert, however, until you use them to support a claim that answers your research question. At that point, your data become evidence. If you don’t have more data than you can use as evidence, you haven’t collected enough.
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There’s no point researching a topic unless you have a good chance of finding the right kind of evidence.
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research question worth investigating that will lead to a research problem worth solving.
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They will think you’ve fulfilled your side of the social contract only when you treat them as who they think they are: scholars interested in greater knowledge and better understanding.
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You establish your side of the relationship with your readers when you adopt one of those three roles—I have information for you; I can help you fix a problem; I can help you understand something better.
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you’ll be expected to find (or create) a community of readers who not only share an interest in your topic (or can be convinced to), but also have questions about it that you can answer.
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give her reason to want to know it.
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writers can’t avoid creating some role for themselves and their readers, planned or not.