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For this week's General Writing Assignment, you will formulate a research question from a broad topic. This week's writing assignment will teach you how to write the introduction and a supporting paragraph for a research paper.

A research paper starts with an introductory paragraph that explains the broad topic of interest and narrows sentence after sentence until you as the author reveal your research question. To produce a specific research question, you had to perform preliminary research where you learned more about the topic. I am going to need to introduce some of the same background information I researched to the reader so that they can understand my specific question.

Your introductory paragraph should introduce your topic and sentence by sentence, get more specific with presenting information until you can state your research question. Make sure to include your broad topic and your research questions should be near the end of the paragraph. The introduction starts with broad information letting the reader know about magnetic orientation, and that while knowing for a while, how magnetic orientation is performed is still a mystery. We get more specific by talking about the broad range of animals that can use magnetic information, and then more specific to indicate what research is out there to show what type of mechanism it could be.

Finally, after more information, you wind up at the end of your paragraph with your specific research question and will then use information from your sources to attempt to answer the question and provide the reader with more information (this will be the literature review in a later assignment). Do not focus on the complex terms in the example but instead, look at the format. It is written in the third person, starts with broad ideas and focuses, like a funnel, until you reach your research question. You will also write one supporting paragraph. Choose a strong article, use information from that article to introduce more information about your research question. This paper must be in APA Format with Title Page, in-text citations, and reference page. The paper should be proofread for grammar and spelling errors.