10-14-2004, 09:47 AM
New question:
In your introduction, do you provide a cronological outline of the various subjects you're going to talk about in your essay, or do just jump right into the first subject at hand after your introduction?
I'm torn between two schools of thought: On the one hand, every single one of my history professors told me last year that it provided the reader a chance to see what the essay was about, and could anticipate what the structure of the essay would be, making it easier to read, as the reader would always know what was yet to come. On the other hand, seeing "I am going to write about x, y and z" in an introduction sounds terribly like highschool-writing to me.
In your introduction, do you provide a cronological outline of the various subjects you're going to talk about in your essay, or do just jump right into the first subject at hand after your introduction?
I'm torn between two schools of thought: On the one hand, every single one of my history professors told me last year that it provided the reader a chance to see what the essay was about, and could anticipate what the structure of the essay would be, making it easier to read, as the reader would always know what was yet to come. On the other hand, seeing "I am going to write about x, y and z" in an introduction sounds terribly like highschool-writing to me.
