{"id":605,"date":"2016-08-05T07:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T18:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/?p=605"},"modified":"2016-07-06T12:10:32","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T23:10:32","slug":"writing-an-essay-introduction-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/2016\/08\/05\/writing-an-essay-introduction-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing an essay introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For an essay <a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/assignment-types\/essay-introduction.php\">introduction<\/a>, it is usually it is best to structure it as follows:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a broad introduction to the overall topic the essay question is about.<\/li>\n<li>a statement that narrows down to the area of the topic you\u2019re discussing and links to the <a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/assignment-types\/essay-thesis-statement.php\">thesis statement<\/a><\/li>\n<li>the <a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/assignment-types\/essay-thesis-statement.php\">thesis statement<\/a> (an outline of your direct answer to the question and your reasons for giving that answer)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also see:<\/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:\/\/stream.massey.ac.nz\/course\/view.php?id=22&amp;section=6\">Essay writing 101<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/sample-assignments\/sample-essay-1.php\">Sample essay 1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/sample-assignments\/sample-essay-2.php\">Sample essay 2<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For an essay introduction, it is usually it is best to structure it as follows: &nbsp; a broad introduction to the overall topic the essay question is about. a statement that narrows down to the area of the topic you\u2019re discussing and links to the thesis statement the thesis statement (an outline of your direct [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essay-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","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=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}