Introduction Provide background and context for your topic Tell the reader what question you wondered. Why is the question relevant.

Three aspects of writing What you wondered first; what you wanted to find out. A summary, paraphrase or quote of what you actually learned at each part of the process, properly cited. Where did that take you next? What was your next step of learning? Be explicit Your learning process and how your thinking has changed.

Ways to weave your narrative with your knowledge gained Before I could focus on the impact of…I first needed to learn more about…I started by reading…I learned that…According to Green, in 2005…Moreover, Green points out that 60% of…

Needing more in-depth information about…I next turned to…On the website I found the results of a 2006 survey that revealed…The survey also indicates that 40%...

The Pew survey gave me a clearer picture of…I was caught off guard by…I was also unaware that…These discoveries helped me to better form… I was now several days into my project…I located a study titled “An Evaluation of Behavior in Social Network Communities” by Frederick Stutzman, a graduate student at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. In this scholarly piece from a conference, Stutzman recounts…

The results showed that… At the heart of Stutzman’s article is a graph that shows… For example, 75% of users were… Stutzman concludes that… I was taken aback by the percentage of… For the next stage of my research, I wanted to explore in more detail what… I located my next source by searching through…

How are you different in regards to your topic and what you’ve learned? As I conclude this research I’m not sure what I have decided… I’ve decided that… I’ve realized that…