Beane+Issue


 * Research Paper Quick Check **


 * Startling and informative opening **


 * Quick summary of main question that I mean to answer or reason I think this topic is important **


 * Two or three most interesting things I learned from research **


 * Confirmation or rejection of one or two commonly held beliefs about this topic **


 * Something to connect the topic to the reader's life so that he/she will care **


 * A closing surprise...intriguing fact, quotation, or discovery from my own research **