Audience: Assume your audience is a neutral, uninformed group.

Topic: Your choice. Must be related to your field of study or a field of study you would
like to pursue. If you would like to explore a field of study different from the one you are
currently pursuing, that would also be acceptable.
Purpose: Your purpose with this paper is to select a researchable yet appropriately
complex topic, develop the topic using the RQA research assignment, use the drafting
process to write your way deeper into the topic/ exploring ideas and posing questions,
seeking answers (writing to discover/ speculate/ find out), and then use the revision
process to step back, define what specifically you are saying in the paper, and rewrite and
edit the paper to fit that purpose. Finally, you will use the editing process to make certain
you have not plagiarized, to cite sources, and to check issues of GUM.
Voice: For this paper, we will be trying on the voice of the “expert.” Through research,
you will make yourself an expert on this subject, and then you will enter the discussion
on the topic using the language and authority of the expert. For this paper, strive to
convey objectivity as you convey information.
Audience: Assume your audience is a neutral, uninformed group. It is your job as the
expert to explain the subject, define specific terms and ideas the general population
would not be familiar with, and to structure your information in such a way that you take
the reader from a point of the familiar to a new understanding of this topic.
Your Final Paper should be 4 pages, and should have 5+ Sources