(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 ...

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 ...

This handout is available for download in DOCX format and PDF format. Since the beginning of time, bullshit, flowery overgeneralization with at least one thesaurus'd vocabulary word. In addition, ...

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.

Writing a letter of introduction for a job may seem intimidating, but it's purpose is to introduce you and your interest in working for that company. Break it down into a few steps, being mindful 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 ...

Using your introduction to gain your listener’s interest. MW: Well, okay, he's not really a preaching coach but I did read this interview with King and he was talking about how to write an effective ...