Hints To Help You Find Good Dissertation Introduction Examples Online

The introduction of a dissertation can be the most challenging of all the elements of a dissertation. I know I changed my introduction completely – twice, because the more I got into my topic and the more it modified and took on its on life, the more I needed an introduction which introduced all of these new ideas. Take my advice on writing introductions to dissertations—mine turned out beautiful but not without some work and effort and if I had known then what I am telling you now—I would have saved myself time and effort as well.

  1. First, understand what the introduction does, then you’ll know why you need to wait to write it.

    2. The introduction of a dissertation is where you explain your entire project in both broad strokes and fine ones as well. You will move from interesting paragraphs that grab your reader’s attention about your project, to a basic explanation of all the theoretical frameworks within the scope of your study, to a broad statement of what your dissertation will prove, to a discussion of how you will narrow this wide focus in your individual chapters. You will tell the reader exactly what the chapters will address.

  2. But, sometimes, chapters change and discoveries change your focus

    3. Sometimes, between the writing of chapters one and four, you’ll make new discoveries or develop new theories that might change or modify your overall thesis. Then, if you have already written your introduction, you will have to modify it and often, completely throw it out because of all the broad and narrow strokes that you’ve made.

  3. Therefore, my advice is that you might want to wait on the introduction until you are on firm ground.

    4. Things might happen during the course of your writing as you move through different chapters that changes the scope of your study slightly. Since this is so, why not write your paper introduction last instead of first? Why not wait to make the broad statement about what your paper will address after you know, for certain, everything that it most assuredly DOES address. Only in this way can you make certain to get it right the first time.

  4. Look at Sample Introductions to Like-Minded Dissertations

    5. I learned to write my introduction to looking at published dissertations by great students in my same discipline and topic area—or as close to it as I could get.