A key function of any introduction is to present your argument in such a way that your audience can enter the conversation and properly engage with your paper. Key questions to think about as you ...

An introduction is the opening paragraph of an essay. It should briefly introduce the topic and outline your key ideas to answer the question. These ideas are then explored in more detail in the rest ...

Funded by a Teaching and Learning Development Grant, this first video examines ways to improve narrative writing and what its goals are. Many students do not fully understand how to write narratives ...

In Bookends, his new collection of forewords, afterwords, prefaces and liner notes, Michael Chabon (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay) promises to perform criticism—though he rather studiously ...

Photo by NICOLAS MAETERLINCK/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images On writing, author David Sedaris once said, “You need to do the best that you can do, and then you need to take the best that you can do and ...

Chris Cantrill is one half of sketch comedy double-act The Delightful Sausage and part of our Comedy Room writer development group for 2018/19. He recently attended our introduction to Children's day ...

The stereotype goes that scientific information is technical, dry, and boring. After all, everyone has dragged themselves through a too-dense manuscript or fought sleep during a slow presentation at ...

This guide provides a brief introduction to writing in the field of art history through the lens of threshold concepts. It includes: A statement of threshold concepts in art history “So you’re taking ...