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Summary Writing your Background and Context
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The following document evaluates and discusses how to effectively write your background and context for your assignment/ dissertation
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Background and Context:Background
Gives an overview of your topic and the key question is, what do you want readers to
know about your research ?
General information about your topic
o What is happening now about the problem you want to study?
o Give stats or analysis from previous research
Historical
o Changes in legislation and policy
Context of your topic
o What are the current conditions, settings, and situations with respect to your
topic?
o Who is directly or indirectly involved?
Rationale/justification of your research
Background and context
Goal: capture the interest of the reader/audience to your research study by giving
sufficient background information
Focus on importance of the question your research is trying to address (Why should
they continue to read further?)
Provide a review of what is currently known about the research area
Persuasive logical review backed up with factual evidence (give stats)
Explain the scope of your work
Adopt a funnel approach to giving the background and context (start broad and then
narrow into your research question)
Global
o Why this topic is important from the global context
o What is known about in terms of:
o Burden, mortality, costs and preventability
Local
o On the country level what is the situation and what attributes are there
o Findings of previous research and their limitations
Focal
o Significance of your research
o The problem statement
o Rationale
Remember not to use ―”I, our, we” use ―”The study”, not ―My
research!!!
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