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=== Background === There is more general advice on the topic of writing an introduction and background section [[CommunityData:Advice on writing a background section to an academic paper|elsewhere on the wiki]] but, given a solid introduction that does its job, your background section should only needs to do two additional things: # Define the terms you'll be using in your study. # Build up the rationale for your hypotheses. Critically, ''a background section is not a comprehensive literature review''. Done well, it is nothing more than a coherent argument that presents your research questions and the rationale that lies behind them. That's it. The background section should end with your hypothesis or hypotheses. If you have several distinct hypotheses, it might make sense to create subsections of your background for each hypothesis. Then you can end each subsection with the hypothesis itself.
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