motivation

Examples of motivation in the following topics:

• Saying Why It Matters

  • The introduction should describe the paper's motivation, objective, problem, tested hypothesis, novel contributions, and background materials.
  • This is the motivation for your own experiment.

• Identifying the Stakes by Identifying Your Audience

  • When approaching the writing process, understand what motivates your audience to care about the topic you are writing about.

• Entering the Scientific Conversation

• Understanding Your Sources

  • The author could be trying to explain, inform, anger, persuade, amuse, motivate, sadden, ridicule, attack, or defend.
  • What situation exists that motivated the research?

• Turning Your Working Hypothesis into a Claim

  • To motivate your audience to read your work, make sure that they know exactly what your claim is.

• Reading Challenging Texts

  • Motivate?

• The Importance of Reliability

  • While personal motivation may not always be accessible in a document, in some cases there can be contextual clues, like the type of publisher or sponsor.

• Critical Thinking

  • Does the author have any ulterior motives or conflicts of interest that might undermine credibility?

• Reading Carefully and Closely

  • Writing can accomplish many different goals: explaining, informing, persuading, evoking various emotions, motivating, attacking, defending.

• Destabilizing the Status Quo

  • Since you want to use destabilization to motivate your reader's attention, the best place to use this tactic is right at the beginning of your paper, when you are still setting up your argument.