The purpose of this activity was to write an introduction to Term Paper 3, our ethics essay.
From the lectures we were supposed to put the following into practice:
Key points to consider when writing an introduction:
Introduce your reader to the subject of your essay.
Give your reader an overview of what you will be doing (road map).
Assume the reader does not know the question – tell them what your essay is about.
Summarise and interpret the question, but don’t write it out.
Give a breakdown (road map) of the most important sections of your essay.
Say what position you will be defending (thesis statement).
Following the basic structure of ‘Hook’, ‘Context’, and ‘Thesis Statement’.:
Hook
Think about beginning your essay with a hook, which is an opportunity to capture your readers’ interest and contextualises the topic of your essay. This gives you the chance to introduce your reader to the subject of your essay.
Context
The context of your essay needs to be well developed where you can give an explanation of any unfamiliar terms and clarify your understanding of the essay context. If you take the stance that your reader does not know much about the topic of your essay, think about what terms might need clarification. By doing this, you can summarise and interpret the question for the reader.
Thesis Statement
Finally, you need to take a stance by making a clear thesis statement. It is useful to think about what type of claim you are making, what the warrant is behind that claim, and specifically in the context of an ethics essay, what moral or ethics theory underpins that claim. The statement does the work of more narrowly defining and making more specific the moral issue you are addressing.
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