Select a research project you are working on, and ask yourself the following questions:

• What is the goal of your work?

• Who is the audience for your work? How can you engage them? What is it that you want the audience to do, feel, or believe after reading your work?

• What are the ethical considerations of your work? How will you handle them?

• What structure and form will enable you to accomplish your goal(s) for your work?

• How will you evaluate your work? How will you know if you have achieved your goal(s)?

Once you have answered the questions, consider at least two different forms for your work (e.g., ABR, traditional format). What are the forms and what do you need to use them? For example, if you select “poetic inquiry,” what do you need to accomplish the project? To read more work on poetic inquiry methods? To take a workshop on poetry forms? Remember, this is all part of the writing process!