By providing an introduction that helps your readers make a transition between their own world and the issues you will be writing about, you give your readers the tools they need to get into your topic and care about what you are saying. If your readers pick up your paper about education in the autobiography of Frederick Douglass, for example, they need a transition to help them leave behind the world of Chapel Hill, television, e-mail, and The Daily Tar Heel and to help them temporarily enter the world of nineteenth-century American slavery. Your introduction and conclusion act as bridges that transport your readers from their own lives into the “place” of your analysis. And it’s fine to write them first! But in your final draft, these middle parts of the paper can’t just come out of thin air they need to be introduced and concluded in a way that makes sense to your reader. You might have chosen a few examples you want to use or have an idea that will help you answer the main question of your assignment these sections, therefore, may not be as hard to write. Usually when you sit down to respond to an assignment, you have at least some sense of what you want to say in the body of your paper.
Introductions and conclusions can be the most difficult parts of papers to write. This handout will explain the functions of introductions, offer strategies for creating effective introductions, and provide some examples of less effective introductions to avoid.
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