Introduction (around 5 pages):

  1. What is your question?
  2. What is the purpose of your paper?
  3. Why are the question and your answer important?
    1. Give a brief summary of a few of the sources you plan to use in your paper.
    2. Give some ways in which the results might be used.
  4. Explain some of the limitations of your research.
    1. What questions aren’t answered?
    2. What groups will this paper not apply to.
  5. Give definitions of the main terms you are using.