Dear Reader,
This essay is about how people view different music fans and their stereotypes towards them. I open the essay with previous studies done by other researchers to give you an idea of what exactly I intend on researching. I also take ideas from these researchers to form questions of my own. This background research provides credibility to my research as my sources are scholarly. By establishing credibility you should remain interested (or at least believe me) throughout the entire paper.
The methods section describes step by step precisely how I will perform my research and will send you to the appendix for the exact questions. This will establish even more credibility as it's not some random research project thrown together, and it is in fact well done. I also include some similar methods done by the sources that I've researched to get the most out of my own research.
I chose this topic specifically because I love music. Without music then I feel like my life would be much more boring. There are stereotypes about race, gender, even different social classes, so I wanted to research whether or not there is a stereotype for different types of music fans. Specifically all of my research is related only to the University of Denver. Ultimately, my goal is to educate you on what (if any) stereotypes do exist among the students at the University of Denver.
You are very clear in laying out the order of which you will write your paper in. You also do a great job of explaining the reasoning behind each section of your paper. In the first paragraph you state that you will take ideas from previous studies done by researchers to form questions of your own. What are some of those questions you have formed? When you speak about your credibility, it comes off that you think the reader would expect your paper to be done poorly. Instead, you may just want to reaffirm that the methods you used to write this paper were done in a professional manner in cooperation with the IRB. Instead of saying life would be boring without music, explain why music can make life interesting. Do you think these stereotypes will be negative or positive? Or can they be both?
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