The paper should inform your audience about a specific, recent, and researchable change, either positive or negative

Focus on a single, specific, relevant, recent, and researchable change, either positive or negative, in your general field of study. Note that technology is too broad as a topic, but a specific technological change like the increased use of cloud computing is a change; obesity is not a change, but the increase in obesity rates among children is a change.

Establish a clear thesis about this topic that focuses on either what caused the change or what effect this change has had on the field.

You may not analyze both cause and effect.

Develop your thesis with specific observations, details, analysis, and research information Avoid taking a position, making recommendations, or addressing solutions-the paper must be an objective, analytical essay that instead only analyzes the causes or effects of this change.

Organize your information logically, using clear transition