Stories are filled with conflicts, confrontations, challenges, struggles, successes,
failures, resolutions, revelations, changes, transitions, evolutions, highs and lows, etc.
These can be both internal, external, and more interestingly, a mix of both. Read More
When you research a topic, you make yourself an expert on that topic and all the directly linked topics and subtopics. You learn about what influences and impacts it and about what it influences and impacts. Then you report and share your findings. Read More
Choose words packed with detail that add to the image and move the story forward. Not all words add to the image, and more words slow the story down. Fewer words
speed it up. Read More
The difference between a research paper and a position paper is that in a research paper, you do
not take a position, you summarize, draw logical conclusions, consider consider any holes in the research in need of further study, and suggest next steps. Read More
To categorize your facts is to put each fact into a group of similar facts and name the group for the kinds of facts it has in it, e.g., all the facts about origins in a group (folder) labeled Origins or evolution and taxonomy facts in a group (folder) labeled Evolution & Taxonomy, all those about physical characteristics in a group (folder) labeled Physical Characteristics, those on
behaviors in a group (folder) labeled Behaviors, etc. Read More
Trace Taylor