How to write an introduction
> most of the grade depends on whether you include the 4 elements (not language etc.)
4 elements/moves:
- Establish a research territory (define a place, limits) what is the problem I want to look at
Introduce your subject and indicate its importancy; why is it important (to economics or to
human welfare for example)
- Review the relevant literature (already existing literature, as inspiration)
Discuss other studies (refer to one or a few already existing sources) and stress your study’s
contribution.
- Establish a niche what hasn’t been done by others, what are you looking at what is new
(‘as far as we know’)
- Occupy the niche
State your study’s purpose, what it will ‘do’ and contribute, which is the response to the gap
identified in the element Establish a niche
You may as well already state your main findings.
You can as well introduce the contents in the next sections (paragraaf) /chapters in your introduction
as a last paragraph (alinea).
> most of the grade depends on whether you include the 4 elements (not language etc.)
4 elements/moves:
- Establish a research territory (define a place, limits) what is the problem I want to look at
Introduce your subject and indicate its importancy; why is it important (to economics or to
human welfare for example)
- Review the relevant literature (already existing literature, as inspiration)
Discuss other studies (refer to one or a few already existing sources) and stress your study’s
contribution.
- Establish a niche what hasn’t been done by others, what are you looking at what is new
(‘as far as we know’)
- Occupy the niche
State your study’s purpose, what it will ‘do’ and contribute, which is the response to the gap
identified in the element Establish a niche
You may as well already state your main findings.
You can as well introduce the contents in the next sections (paragraaf) /chapters in your introduction
as a last paragraph (alinea).
