The Introductions Unit

In this section, you'll read about the major types of introduction strategies used in academic writing.  You'll be familiar with some of them, but I think some will be new to you.  The purpose here is to enhance your understanding of the purpose of the introduction paragraph/section of your essay, and to give you some specific strategies that will be useful in terms of setting up your main argument.

I also created some videos that review the characteristics of strong and weak introductions that previous students have turned in.  At the end of the section, there is a quiz to test your knowledge at identifying the instroduction strategy that an author is using. 

Post any questions to the Questions and Answers Discussion.