Step 1: After you choose a specific audience, you will need to find one or two additional sources related to your research question that are especially relevant to this specific audience. Then, write a letter (at least 300 words) addressed to this audience. (Although you are actually posting this letter to our class discussion board, you should pretend as if you are giving the letter to the specific audience you’ve identified and write the letter accordingly. This means you can address the audience specifically and use second person pronouns such as “you.”)
In your letter, you should do the following:
Explain your current research question and why you see this question as important to this particular audience. What specifically about your research is valuable, significant, and/or impactful to this audience? How does/will your research impact some aspect of their lives? Here, you might discuss personal impact, professional impact, cultural impact, political impact, or something else.
Describe some of the research you’ve done so far and how this is helping you answer your research question. Here, you do not need to necessarily go over all of your research from Blogs 2 and 3. Instead, choose to focus on the particular idea(s) and source(s) that you think will be especially relevant to this particular audience.
Describe the new source you found for this audience specifically. What is the title and who is the author? Here, give a brief summary of what this source (or two sources) say/s and explain why you think this source (or sources) might be especially interesting/relevant to the person/group who is reading your letter.
Explain to your audience what ideas you now have for future research. Remember, research is an ongoing conversation, so someone else might pick up the research where youve left off and continue the conversation. What ideas are still in need of exploration? What questions still need to be answered?
Note: You might choose to use two sources if it will help you more thoroughly address the research question (including possible solutions and answers to the question) for your audience, or if it will help you more thoroughly address why this issue is important for that audience. You should not use more than two new sources for this assignment–the idea here is to focus what you want to say.