• Ben Holloway,  Teaching

    How To Write a Persuasive Research Paper

    The following are instructions for writing a persuasive research paper. To include in the paper: Introduction (one paragraph) Explain the issue Begin your paper with an explanation of the issue you are going to discuss. A good way to state your issue is by using a question. For example, one might write “is it only possible to understand justice for an individual if we understand justice in a city?” You may also want to state the view of the author on which you are going to write. (e.g. “in The Republic, Plato suggests that we can only understand the nature of justice in an individual if we understand the nature of justice in a city”)…