Research Paper Outline Suggestion

I.                           Introduction (establish a problem or an issue regarding the relationship between your selected technology and language. State your paper’s argument regarding that relationship. For example: I argue that Instagram’s reliance on visual language is detracting from our verbal literacy, because Instagram users must skill-up in visual literacy over verbal literacy. I assert that Twitter is tending to make people write more briefly, because it makes its users think more about how to write succinctly. Road map sentence. In the following paper, I describe the technology, discuss how it affects language in this way, in that way, in another way, and finally, conclude with a compelling reason why this is important.

II.                      Paragraph on the technology.

III.                 Example that supports your argument. Begins with a topic sentence about this specific example. Support your example with detailed discussion written by you and quoted material from your research. Keep each example paragraph focused on a single topic.

IV.                Another example on another topic.

V.                     Another example.

VI.                Another example.

VII.            Another example.

VIII.       Conclusion (Restate your argument and supporting evidence in a sentence or two to begin. THEN, answer this question: So what?