Description

Essay question :Identify key influences on speciation rates and evaluate the weight of existing evidence for their relative importance.

Task: Do a quantitative review. That is, you address the question (see the title above) by searching for, collating and evaluating the weight of evidence in the literature.

Essay Structure:

Introduction: Introduce the ‘big picture’ then focus in.

Identify the problem/knowledge gap.

Clear statement of research question/hypotheses.