ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses literacy issues relevant to introductions. These issues include the identification of research goals, stating and developing research questions, and the use of literature reviews to support and ground research questions. Often, research studies focus on issues of effectiveness, accountability, exploration, and the like. There are many different reasons to turn to the world of experience to look for answers. Researchers might want to see if some practice is actually effective. They might want to see if further practical efforts might be useful. A good argument supports and enhances its research questions, pulls together what is already known, lays the foundation for the design and analysis of the study, and helps make the results clear and easy to interpret. A flawed argument, on the other hand, undermines the entire study. The training articles were deliberately designed to have simple and concise arguments.
