Identify and Define Your Target Behavior The introduction serves as your roadmap for the reader (and for you as the writer and researcher as well). The introduction reviews, details, and summarizes the behavior that you have chosen to change and explains why this is an important behavior for you modify. Address these key points:  Describe completely and specifically DEFINE the TARGET BEHAVIOR (VARIABLE) that you plan to change. Express the target behavior in terms of a quantity - i.e., increasing or decreasing your behavior. See examples listed below. o INCREASINGWATERCONSUMPTION o REDUCINGSODACONSUMPTION o INCREASINGEXERCISEFREQUENCY o IMPROVINGSLEEP