1. From Topics to Questions

2. Engaging Your Audience Topics can have large audiences E.g. demography topics Disciplines – sociology, geography, economics, anthropology, medicine, public health, political scientists Interest groups and policy makers Narrow the audience and convince them you have something new and interesting Offer a puzzle, paradox, hitherto unknown that should be known

3. Questions about audience Who will read this paper? What do they already know? What do they expect of me? Provide factual data Understand something better Solve a practical problem

4. Audience Expectations Who wants to read your study? What kind of evidence are they expecting? What will interest them about your study? What’s new about your study? What will we know after reading your study that we DIDN’T know before?

5. Questions about audience (cont.) How much can I expect them to know? Their knowledge level, their special interests Is the problem already recognized by them? Or not? How will readers respond to my solution or answer? Agree or disagree Need to see all the steps Need to see presentation in standard format

6. Topic and Question Topic Puzzle Question [this audience should be hooked at this slide]

7. Topics: Participant Example Topic from broad to narrow Why is this interesting? What is the puzzle? From:

8. Topic to Question Take the interesting topic and turn it into a why or how question Q1: Q2: Q3:

9. Topic to Question: Group Exercise Examining sample research articles in selected journals Identify topic – from broad to narrow What is the question? Why or how? Audience? Evidence Expectations?

10. COFFEE BREAK!!!!