On Writing
If you want to contribute to the discipline, if you want to be part of the community of literary scholars and critics, then, as David Bartholomae reminds us, "the student has to learn to speak our language, to speak as we do, to try on the peculiar ways of knowing, selecting, evaluating, reporting, concluding, and arguing that define the discourse of our community."
"Speaking our language" certainly has to do with ways of reading and thinking, but it also has to do with writing, and there are specific academic moves that good writers make.
As you introduce, support your claims, and conclude, please follow my advice as you follow the links in the margin.
Voila a pdf version of all the writing advice addressing introductions, minus the examples:
