How to Write a Good Intro of a Thesis

How to Write a Good Intro

Thesis

GENERAL

1. A good intro is engaging. Intro can be tricky because the intro is the first portion of your THESIS that the reader encounters. The stakes are fairly high for your intro to be successful. A good intro presents a broad overview of your topic and your thesis and should convince the reader that it is worth their time to actually read the rest of your essay. Below are some tips that will make writing an introduction a little less daunting, and help us all to write essays that don’t make our professors want to bang their heads against the wall.

BROAD BUT NOT TWO BROAD

2. Intro should provide the reader with a sense of what they should expect out of your thesis, not to expound upon every piece of knowledge ever developed by man. Go ahead and start relatively broad, then narrow to your thesis, but make sure you’re still on topic.

PROVIDE RELEVANT BACKGROUND

3. It’s fine to give a bit of context to your THESIS in the introduction, but the real meat of your argument should be located in your body paragraphs. A good test to see if information should go in a body or introductory paragraph is to ask yourself a few questions. Is this providing context or evidence? Does this introduce my argument, or try to prove it? True evidence or proof deserves a body paragraph. Context and background most likely belong in your introduction.

PROVIDE A THESIS

4. The majority of the time, your thesis, or main argument, should occur somewhere towards the end of your introduction. It is a typical convention to put your thesis as the last sentence of your first paragraph. 

PROVIDE HELPFUL AND RELEVANT INFO

5. Anecdotes can be an interesting opener to your THESIS but only if the anecdote in question is truly relevant to your topic. 

TRY TO AVOID CLICHES

6. Some types of intro may have once been successful but have been used so often that they have become tired and clichéd. Starting your THESIS with a definition is a good example of one of these conventions. At this point, starting with a definition is a bit boring and will cause your reader to tune out.

WHEN TO WRITE INTRO

7. Sometimes it can be difficult to fig out exactly what info is relevant to your intro until you’ve written the piece itself. If you are having trouble with your intro, feel free to write some, or all, of your body paragraphs, and then come back to it. You might find it a bit easier to write your intro once you’re more comfortable with the THESIS as a whole.

CONVINCE READER

8. Your reader should finish the intro thinking that the THESIS is interesting or has some sort of relevance to their lives. A good intro is engaging. it gets the audience thinking about the topic at hand and wondering how you will be proving your argument. Good ways to convince your reader that your THESIS is worthwhile is to provide info that the reader might question or disagree with. Once they are thinking about the topic, and wondering why you hold your position, they are more likely to be engaged in the rest of the THESIS paper.

CONCL

9. Basically, a good intro provides the reader with a brief overview of your topic and an explanation of your THESIS. A good intro is fresh, engaging, and interesting. Successful introductions don’t rely on clichés or irrelevant information to demonstrate their point. 

10. Be brief, be concise, be engaging. 

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