What do you put in background information?

[prompter]

I am doing my project on diabetes, so what am I supposed to put in my background information? Is it research? Like what is diabetes? and treatment for diabetes? etc.

[amyc]

Yes - your background information will be your research. From your other messages, it sounded like you were writing a paper and not doing an experiment. But you have also indicated you are doing a survey? Is your survey not designed with a hypothesis in mind for your topic?

For assistance during the research part of your project, see the "Background research" section of the Project Guide:

http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-f ... ndex.shtml

[subo123]

For background info you should put things that gives info about your topic.

P.S. How do you add a post.