Developing a Line Of Reasoning
- Revise your research question
- turn your hypothesis into your main claim
- plan your claims, reasons, evidence, as well as objections and limitations to your main claim and any part of your argument.
- make sure the evidence that supports your reasons is both strong enough for your reader to believe it and appropriate to the nature of the claim being made.
- evidence types are anecdotes, expert testimony, facts, statistical data, examples, and common knowledge.
- anticipate and acknowledge ways in which your reader can question or disagree with your argument or any part of it and consider how you will address these
| Write your revised question | Question: What role does happiness play in our daily motivation and well as the role of motivation in daily satisfaction? |
| Write the hypothetical answer to your question | Your Main Claim: as a human pursuit, happiness acts a motivator in the daily lives of individuals. Satisfaction originates from various sources and factors depending on the environment such as home or workplaces and in the education system. Happy individuals get motivated hence focusing on achieving their goals which in turn makes them happy and more motivated. Equally, motivation makes people happy and successful. |
| Think about your strongest piece of evidence. How does it support your claim? | Supporting Claim with Evidence 1: In the education system, social support of the students from family members, friends and parents result in the individuals’ psychological well-being. Such happiness from social support makes the students highly motivated hence focused on achieving their academic goals and objectives. The moral support offered to the student results in their happiness and well-being, thus motivated, leading to subsequent achievements of the goals. The evidence supports the claim based on facts that it explains the relationship between social factors which brings happiness to students hence motivated in the academics. |
| How does it connect with your claim? How does this evidence work with #1? | Supporting Claim with Evidence 2: In workplace places involving different organizations, employees’ motivations at work result in personal happiness hence giving out quality output. Employees who hold different effects due to the motivations they encounter in the workplaces result in their satisfaction. On the same note, well-motivated employees’ aims in achieving every day and long term goals in the organizations. Achieving their targets make them happy and concentrate on bigger goals. The evidence relates with #1 based on facts that motivation also acts as a source of happiness juts as happiness occurs as a motivator; hence two factors influencing each other. |
| How does it connect with your claim? How does this evidence work with #1 & 2? | Supporting Claim with Evidence 3: Student’s subjective hope and happiness act as factors of motivation in diverse institutions and levels. The positive psychology as one of the psychological happiness and hope of the students play a crucial role in their academic performance based on motivation they receive. When the students get happy and possess high expectations in their learning environment, they receive a high level of motivation leading to a high score in their subjects. Based on this evidence, it closely works with #1 and 2 through elaboration and explanation of the relationship and how happiness leads to daily motivation in the life of individuals such as students. For instance, developing, maintaining and improving the hope and joy of the students in universities would consequently result in achievement motivation leading high performance in their subjects as well as attaining their academic goals. |
| How does it connect to your claim? How does this evidence work with previous evidence? | Supporting Claim with Evidence 4: Good moods lead to excitement and happiness, which acts as the excellent motivator of people in various aspects of life ranging from home, school and work environments. Individuals’ satisfaction possesses a significant relationship with motivation. People strive to gains the positive affect thus minimizing the adverse affects, which boosts and improves their moods and satisfaction. Individuals focus on the activities that could result in satisfaction in their lives, leading to motivations in their daily activities. Achieving goals by people make them happy and enhance their moods leading to motivations. The evidence elaborates and explains various concepts connecting personal happiness and motivations based on positives moods. |
| How does it connect to your claim? How does this evidence work with previous evidence? | Supporting Claim with Evidence 5: In personal career and field of education, happiness plays a significant role in motivating the students in various levels of studies. Happy students with positive affects possess high chances of success as well as achieving their career goals which makes them profoundly motivated in what they do in education. Student’s happiness acts as the primary cause of striving for higher career goals through investing in more time and effort. Achieving one goal in educations always results in the motivation to attend more top career objectives. The evidence shows how happiness results in motivations among the young generation aiming at achieving their educational and career goals. |
| How does it connect to your claim? How does this evidence work with previous evidence? | Supporting Claim with Evidence 6: Individuals’ positive thinking and emotions lead to happiness. Positive thinking makes people stay focused on their goals which enhance their achievements. Self-efficacy and optimism act as the primary factors in positive thinking as well as helping people to endure difficult situations in life. Furthermore, positive thinking results in beneficial interactions and social support, thus creating happiness to different individuals. Various factors make people happy, which vary from one individual to another. The evidence offers information on positive thinking that makes people happy and motivated. |
| How does it connect to your claim? How does this evidence work with previous evidence? | Supporting Claim with Evidence 7: Materialism exists as significant factors in human lives that can result in happiness. People continue to seek more wealth which makes them happy in turn through the extension of the socioeconomic status to a higher level in society. Material satisfaction further leads to an individual’s happiness and well-being which motivates people for further search for more materials. Materialism plays a significant role in connecting happiness and motivation. For example, achieving the single goal of materialism offers happiness and well-being which motivates people to work towards gaining more of such things. |
| How does it connect to your claim? How does this evidence work with previous evidence? | Supporting Claim with Evidence 8: In various organizations, a substantial relationship occurs between the welfare, motivation and authenticity of the employees. Well motivated workers offer authenticity to the companies through self-determination, control and motivation, which result in the well being and happiness of the workforce. The authenticity determines motivation and well being of the workers. The evidence explains the relationship between workers authenticity as the intrinsic motivation and well-being of individuals in workplaces. |
| How does it connect to your claim? How does this evidence work with previous evidence? | Supporting Claim with Evidence 9: Concepts of self-motivation comprise relatedness, autonomy and competence significant in various angles of human existence. Contented individuals get motivated for higher objectives in their lives, leading to happiness. For the student in multiple institutions, happiness motivates them in attaining higher grades and career aims. Happiness plays a critical role in individuals’ motivations, as witnessed in this evidence and the previous ones. |
| How does it connect to your claim? How does this evidence work with previous evidence? | Supporting Claim with Evidence 10: (add more rows until you include all the evidence you intend to use) Valuing happiness indirectly or directly leads to a personal well- being which comprises psychological health. Happiness leads to motivation hence individual growth and development aiming in achieving personal objectives. The evidence shows the connection between happiness and motivation. |
| This is likely what you’ll leave the reader with. How effective is it? | Conclusion: What new understanding does the reader have now? Motivation and happiness occur in an intertwined nature hence one affects another in various ways. Happiness would result in the motivation of individuals, therefore, achieving their goals in multiple environments like home, school and workplaces. Equally, well-motivated individuals concentrate on attaining particular objectives which makes happy as well as improving and developing their well-being. Happiness results in positive thinking and affects, which motivates people in what they do in their surroundings. |