: Should I use hypophoras at the beginning of every paragraphs? Hypophora is a figure of speech in which a writer raises a question and then immediately provides an answer to that question.

Hypophora is a figure of speech in which a writer raises a question and then immediately provides an answer to that question.

I am about to write a Statement of Purpose. In the SOP, I need to answer some questions:

What have you already done?
What are you working on now?
What might you want to work on in the future?
How does my department fit your research goals?

Each paragraph, of course, will be an answer for each question. Instead of writing those paragraphs normally, I would like to start them with the questions they will answer for. In short, I will use hypophoras to start those paragraphs. However, I'm afraid that using them a lot will be counterproductive. Should I use hypophoras at the beginning of every paragraphs?

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@Miguel976

Do you have a style guide for what you're writing? That should give you advice on using things like headers.
I would advise against using headers or hypophoras if you can - writing is much more eloquent if you can answer the questions without labelling them. For example:

'I have written a series of novels about...'
'I am now working on a new novel about...'
'These projects will lead me towards...'
'I feel this course will be of benefit to me because...'

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@Debbie451

If these questions are explicitly given to you as worded, I think you can make them into section headers, and organize your responses under them.

The hypophora as you reference it describes situations where the writer is raising a question in order to discuss it, not answering a question which someone else has posed.

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