Finding commonalities across disciplines

A good paper in any field needs to communicate a writer’s purpose to an audience and to explore an engaging question about a subject.

All effective writers make an argument and support their claims with evidence.

Writers in any field need to show readers the thesis they’re developing (or, in the sciences, the hypothesis they’re testing) and how they counter opposing explanations or objections of other writers.

All disciplines require writers to document where they found their evidence and from whom they borrowed ideas.