At university, you will at some time or other need to write a Thesis introduction chapter. It can be very challenging to do. However, if you have good writing skills you can do it if you invest the necessary time and effort. Your thesis is a very complicated and important document. The sum of your years of study are coming together in this document. It is usually a lengthy document that is broken up into different chapters. While regular papers divide their ideas into an introductory paragraph and body paragraphs, your thesis document will divide ideas into chapters to present the full idea of the thesis.

Your first chapter therefore will be your introductory chapter. In many respects in Thesis, the procedure for writing an introduction chapter remains the same for a longer piece of writing, such as a dissertation. It is important that the opening sentence will immediately catch the reader’s interest. Whilst you need to give and honest introduction, you do not want to say everything you have to say in the introduction. You need to keep some of your good material for later. What you want to do is keep the reader in suspense so that they will want to read more. It is vital to make sure that there is a clear relationship between the introduction and the remainder of the dissertation; do not promise what you cannot deliver nor create expectations that cannot be met. At the same time, there will also be some differences in your approach. Continue reading →