Organize the materials you will be using in the background paper. Make a comprehensive list of every resource you used in creating your solution. Pick out the most essential and comprehensive sources that have shaped the field and your own solution. These articles and resources will be the main focus of the background paper.
Create an outline of the solution background paper. The outline should include the introduction, which details your main argument, and the solution for which you are providing background.
Continue your outline to map out the body of the paper. The body should introduce the main sources that shaped the solution under discussion. Discuss one resource per paragraph and note how these resources are influential. Organize the main body of the paper so the sources under discussion are in conversation with each other. For example, a resource which discusses the upsides to early childhood education and another resource which discusses its negative aspects would be ideal sources to place next each other.
Wrap up the outline with a conclusion, which should be a recap of the sources discussed and how your solution fits into this literature.
Write the paper using your outline as a guide in shaping the text. The introduction should give a clear description of the solution under discussion, why it is relevant to the field, and the resources you will be discussing in the body of the paper. Make clear in this introduction that you are going to be providing the background to the solution, rather than a full discussion of the solution's implications. An example opening to the background paper would be, "Early childhood education should be redesigned to keep children engaged and excited about the learning process through movement and music. Much of the literature on this issue has supported this educational solution over the last 20 years."
The main body of the paper should discuss each of the relevant background resources. Each paragraph should introduce the resource under discussion, the main arguments the resource posits, and how this resource contributes to the new solution. Remember to keep a single resource to each paragraph to keep the paper organized and clear.
Write a conclusion which once again places the solution within the background you provided throughout the paper. Quickly recap the main arguments within the field and how these arguments have shaped the solution you are discussing. This conclusion will be the section in which the solution can be discussed in more detail, now that the reader has received information about the background of the solution.