POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Hedley Bull, Humanitarian Intervention, Tied Aid
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Should be a length in proportion to the length of your overall paper e. g. , for a 12-page paper you are looking at around 1- 1 pages. Should begin by introducing the topic in an engaging way. No need to go on at length, you have the rest of your paper for that. Should clearly provide a thesis statement i. e. , the argument that the paper will be making. To make your thesis statement clear, you could say: Just be sure to state your argument clearly. And try to do it in the first page. Introduction should provide you and the reader with a basic road-map of the paper. This will help prevent both of you from getting lost. For example you might write on the first essay topic regarding the obsolescence of war. In this case, you might include the following somewhere in your introduction: