Authors and editors in the humanities know that journals are more likely to accept scholarly essays with strong introductions and that such essays are more likely to influence academic conversations.

What makes a good introduction for a dissertation? Graduate students practice critiquing one another’s thesis chapters, but they rarely read the introductions — usually because those are written to ...

Starting a new blog can feel a bit like standing at the edge of a pool, wondering if the water’s cold. The first thing your readers see is your introduction blog post, and that can be nerve-wracking.