Join Desi as you transform your responses in the problem statement worksheet into paragraphs. Desi writes in real-time (and offers a few scholarly writing tips along the way) as she helps you move from short answers to full-fledged paragraphs, which will soon guide your search of the literature. This scaffolded approach to problem-statement writing will help you produce highly organized, structured writing (the kind we expect in a literature review). Follow the approach in this lesson, and fear the blank page no more.

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Desi drafted most of her problem statement in this video lesson. She then wrote the section on the significance of the research problem after the lesson ended. Below is a completed draft of her problem statement; notice that she color-coded each section of the problem statement. She also created placeholders for references. When you complete a draft of your problem statement, you may also want to color code each component; doing so helps you visually recognize each component. The color coding key is at the top of Desi's draft.