What makes a good introduction for a dissertation? Graduate students practice critiquing one another’s thesis chapters, but they rarely read the introductions — usually because those are written to ...

Your essay may change significantly while you're developing it, and then the intro will be inappropriate. Struggling for a good intro is a sure step to developing writer's block. Ex: One has to wonder ...

Authors and editors in the humanities know that journals are more likely to accept scholarly essays with strong introductions and that such essays are more likely to influence academic conversations.

First impressions are important. Scientists need to make their work stand out among a sea of others. However, many mistakenly believe that first impressions are formed based only on titles and ...

When building your business team, acclimating new hires properly ensures that they feel welcome and work productively with your current employees. If your company has fewer than 20 employees and ...

When giving professional presentations, the introduction should grab the audience's attention while at the same time informing them about the subject, as well as what they can expect in terms of ...

The introduction gives the audience a reason to listen to the remainder of the speech. A good introduction needs to get the audience’s attention, state the topic, make the topic relatable, establish ...

(Editor’s note: “How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times” is the fourth in a series of writing and language books written by Poynter’s Roy Peter Clark and published by Little, Brown, beginning ...

Most importantly, introductions should introduce your paper. Sounds simple, right? But often, students will use the introduction to summarize the topics they will expand in the body of their paper.