Combine background essay and literature review; & end with what medium of message today?

Think of this as a recipe to follow and the ingredients needed for it!

Take out your Background essay and do some careful revisions. You must reformat it at the top to take out the header. You will use a title page instead.
Take out your Literature review and do careful revisions. Add some sources if you need to.
Work on part three:

Develop your claims and evidences depending on your findings. Your academic argument should include the following elements: a main claim, reasons, evidence, acknowledgments, and responses. Important! Your main claim will be a response to your research question.
Revise the Research Question: look at the post on how to do that on the announcements page.
Developing a claim: Come up with a one-sentence answer to the research question from the conclusion of your Literature Review, which will be the main claim in your academic argument.
You need a total minimum of 15 sources for the FRA, so keep on browsing, surfing, researching, and asking questions.

Coversheet & Title: Include the title, your name, the course number, instructor name, and date on the coversheet.

On a new page after the cover page, center the word Abstract on the top of this page and then begin the abstract paragraph on the next line. Write a one-paragraph summary (150-200 words) of your research paper.

Write the general introduction: Include the title of your essay again on the first page of your essay (after the Abstract page); it should be centered on the top of the page; begin the text on the next line. While your introductory section may be one or more paragraphs long (probably not more than two), pay special attention to your very first paragraph, which should capture your reader’s attention.

Background Section (include section heading; additional subheadings may be useful): This section is the revision of your Background Essay (probably excluding the introduction and conclusion of that earlier essay). Note that revision can mean omitting, expanding or condensing what you wrote earlier, as well as adding new relevant information and subtopics that you hadn’t included at all in the earlier assignment.

If you find you need more information for the paper:Organization/Group/Program/Agency/Department Profile (include section heading; should be at least one page of new writing): Identify and profile one entity that is doing work in relation to your narrowed topic and research question. Describe their objectives, services, and actions in relation to a particular problem. Which group(s), if any, is the entity trying to serve and/or call to action?

Literature Review (include section heading; include subheadings for summary and discussion/evaluation of sources): This is the section in which you report on the relevant research and writing that other scholars have published in scholarly articles and chapters While you should plan on using what you can from your earlier Literature Review essay, you may need to revise what you wrote there since your research question may have changed, and you will have looked at many new sources; while you will still need an introductory paragraph for this section, a revised version of the conclusion from the Literature Review essay should move to the beginning of your Original Claim.

Your Original Claim (include section heading; should be at least three pages of new writing): Begin this section with your own original research question along with its justification (may be a revised version of your concluding paragraph from your Literature Review essay), which should emerge out of the scholarly sources in the lit review section, especially those areas or questions that you believe have not yet been adequately answered. The overall purpose of the FRA is to support your main interpretive claim, the answer to your original research question.
Conclusion (include section heading): Synthesize (do not summarize!) the main information, explanations, debates and argument that your paper has offered. Restate, in different words to avoid repetition, your original research question and main claim. What is the significance of the work you have done, the research you’ve uncovered, the questions you’ve asked, and the arguments you have made?
References (include section heading): You need a minimum of 12-15 sources (see next section for more details). Begin a new page with the word References centered on the top of the first page of the list of sources that you quoted or cited. Each source should appear in APA format ( (Links to an external site.), which means that you have to pay attention to details of punctuation, indentation, spacing, capitalization, italics/underlining, sequencing, etc.
Quotations & Paraphrases: Include at least one quote or paraphrase from all 12-15 of your sources. Nothing on the reference page that you do not use in the paper cited.
Headings: At the very least, you need to have the following headings: Intro Background, Literature Review, Discussion, and Conclusion.
Spell check, grammar check. Check for no use of “I” or personal stories. You are not arguing as much as you are compiling research on a claim.