Important aspects of your essay.
Frame the Issue
What is your question/hypothesis?
What type of information would readers need to understand to understand your question and this
paper? Give the information.
Evidence Gathering
Summarize the feature and the article
Identify the evidence in both the feature and article
Are their any similarities or differences in the presented evidence?
Using the feature and the article:
How did the feature/article set up their experimental design?
What empirical evidence does the feature/article state?
Do the feature/article come to the same or different conclusions?
Are there any problems with the evidence given in the feature or the article?
What conclusions can you make about the topic or question now that you have learned about it
in class and read the feature and the article?
Analysis
What is the answer to your question or the analysis of your hypothesis given the evidence from
both sources.
Conclusions
Restate your hypothesis!
What are your conclusions based on your analysis of the evidence and what you have learned in
class? (is your hypothesis supported or not supported?)
Are there any implications or limitations of your conclusions?
How do the conclusions apply to your everyday life?
