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Students find the task of writing an essay quite intimidating – whether it is for a scholarship, an application for school, a class assignment or for some sort of contest.
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Read on to find out five tips that will definitely help you write the best introduction for your essay that you possibly can!
1. Pick a topic.
You will face either of the two situations – either the topic has been assigned to you by your professor, or you are allowed to pick and choose and write about a topic that you feel most passionate about.
If it is the first case, take time out to ponder over the kind of paper you want to create and submit – is it a general overview of the topic, or is it narrowed to analyze something specific?
If you haven’t got a topic assigned to you, you need to do some extra work. Researching about and sifting through various topics gives you the opportunity to figure out what is relevant, and what piques your interest.
In this process, you will also be able to figure out the point of writing your essay – do you plan for it to be persuasive, or informative?
After you have figured out the purpose of your essay, do research on the topics that you find interesting. Think about what topics make you want to write about them, and then note them down.
Lastly, go through the options that you have finalized on and choose according to your goal. If you wish to impart knowledge and educate, it’s better to choose a topic you’re familiar with and have studied about.
If you wish to persuade your audience, ensure that you pick something you feel passionate about. But most of all, you should be thoroughly interested in the topic that you have chosen.
Students may require help with writing persuasive essays, or of any other kinds of essays. Each essay is a large project that can be broken down into several small steps so that it is overall much more manageable.
2. Dedicate 1-2 sentences to articulating what the article covers.
Commonly known as the “thesis”, these sentences serve to describe to the readers what your article is about. The things that you will be discussing, what the article is about and in which order are explained in the thesis. This helps in concisely laying out what the reader’s expectations should be and hence aids them in deciding whether or not they want to read the article fully, or if they want to just read parts of it.
You may even explicitly just mention, “This article is about so and so”; or, “In this article, you will find out how to xyz”. Some variations on these include :
- You’re about to find out why platypuses are the only mammals that lay eggs.
- And, if you have ever wondered why platypuses are the only mammals that lay eggs, here is everything that you need to know.
- This article explains the reasons why platypuses are the only mammals that lay eggs.
3. Relevance and importance
To be able to engage and connect with your readers, it is of utmost importance to display the motivation for you having done this research, how it is connected to work that is already on the topic, and what your insights will contribute to preexistent knowledge.
As you provide your readers with a brief overview of the current state of research being done on the selected topic, remember to cite the most relevant, up-to-date literature that you can source. This will help you accurately indicate how your research addresses a particular gap or problem in your chosen field.
In the literature review section/chapter of your essay, you can go on to further conduct a slightly in-depth survey of all relevant sources.
The focus of your research might be specifically on its practical application or furthering an academic understanding of said topic, according to your selected topic. In several cases, your article can do both.
Use your introduction to explain how your essay
- Can help solve a problem (practical or theoretical)
- Acknowledges and helps improve a gap in the literature
- Adds on to existing research
- Brings in a new perspective and understanding of the topic.
4.Don’t bury your readers in detail
In your introduction, in case your paper is about a field that usually requires the summation of the studies main results before proceeding with methods, try to avoid stating excessive detailed results. This is because later on, in other sections of your story, these results are required to properly develop and be understood.
For example, instead of presenting hard facts and data in the very beginning itself, try and provide a more generalised overview that helps the readers get a gist.
5. Questions and objectives
Last but not the least, questions and objectives form the most crucial part of your introduction. They set expectations for the rest of your essay and guide your readers in the direction towards what they need to expect while reading it.
You might require help with your argumentative essay – which is basically a type of essay that produces an argument on both opposing sides of a common issue. It helps the writer broadcast his/her thoughts by either presenting one side more forcefully than the other, or by balancing the viewpoints.
How you have formulated your research questions and objectives will be dependent on your topic, focus and discipline – but it is essential to clearly and concisely the main aim of your research.
You can also decide whether or not you would like to mention the methods you have used to research and answer your questions – but if there is already another section for this, there’s no need to provide too much detail.
Author Bio: As an assignment expert, Jane delivers online sessions at Expert Assignment Help (UK), helping students with writing essays and assignments. She is also one of the co-founders and education consultants at Top My Grades. Beyond work, you can find her at community homework workshops as a volunteer helping students in need of private tutoring
with their homework.
