Acknowledge the immediate context

• This conversation is discussing my personal position on metaphor’s role in how we perceive our bodies, experience sickness, and/or pursue health
• The large issues here are the effects of metaphors on one’s health
• Metaphors can influence one’s mentality around getting better, or worse

Introduce your internal context

• My paper’s scope is an overview of how a simple metaphor can improve someone’s mentality over time
• My paper will cover the differences between positive effects of metaphors and what can happen if you’re straight forward, ie. telling someone with a disease that they’re straight up going to die instead of encouraging them to keep trying 
• This paper should matter to medical students in both mental and physical practices

Set expectations

• My intent for this paper is to potentially influence the views of others on the ways metaphors play a strong role with the health of others
• I am trying to prove that mentality can be influenced by motivated feelings
• I will choose to prove that metaphors can positively influence the health of others when used in the proper context