Choose three different goals from the following list to set for yourself when writing your conference proposal. Setting these small goals will make it easier for you grow as a writer over our semester together:

• Identify a gap in the research and explain how you are going to fill it in your introduction
• Include a research question in your introduction which includes the words “how” or “why” or “what effect?
• Specify how your research is different from other scholars’ work
• Explain why your research question and your answer matters
• Pick a fight with a named scholar using the “they say / I say” formula
• “Stand on the shoulders of giants” of a specific named scholar
• Include specific evidence to support your answer (examples could include specific descriptions of a poster, movie, play, poem or scientific data)
• Include several sentences explaining how the evidence supports your claim
• Anticipate and respond to a critic’s counterargument

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