{"id":413,"date":"2015-11-26T10:19:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T21:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/?p=413"},"modified":"2015-11-26T10:19:25","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T21:19:25","slug":"writing-an-essay-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/2015\/11\/26\/writing-an-essay-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing an essay introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Usually an introduction includes three parts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A broad opening statement that introduces the broad topic of the essay (a couple of sentences).<\/li>\n<li>A link to the topic of the essay \u2013 narrowing the focus to the part of the topic the question is asking about.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/assignment-types\/essay-thesis-statement.php\">thesis statement<\/a>: a summary of your direct answer to the question, including the reasons why you are giving the answer you are giving. It can also be a good idea to include the structure of the essay in your <a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/assignment-types\/essay-thesis-statement.php\">thesis statement<\/a>, i.e. indicate how the essay will be structured and what will be discussed in what order (e.g. \u201cFirst\u2026 Second\u2026\u201d Or \u201cFirst, I will argue\u2026 Second, I will argue\u2026\u201d),<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also see:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/assignment-types\/essay-introduction.php\">http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/assignment-types\/essay-introduction.php<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/sample-assignments\/sample-essay-1.php\">http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/sample-assignments\/sample-essay-1.php<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/assignment-types\/essay-thesis-statement.php\">http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/assignment-types\/essay-thesis-statement.php<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/pdf\/studyup-essays-1.pdf\">http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/pdf\/studyup-essays-1.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/pdf\/studyup-essays-2.pptx\">http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/pdf\/studyup-essays-2.pptx<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/assignment-types\/essay-flow.php\">http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/assignment-types\/essay-flow.php<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually an introduction includes three parts: A broad opening statement that introduces the broad topic of the essay (a couple of sentences). A link to the topic of the essay \u2013 narrowing the focus to the part of the topic the question is asking about. The thesis statement: a summary of your direct answer to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}