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 ...

A good intro in a TV series can effectively prepare the audience for the show to come. Indeed, the best intros are those that manage to use both images and sound to capture something essential about ...

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.

Too many technologist, in every generation of technology, state that management need to think more like programmers. That’s not the case. Rather, the technology professionals need to learn to speak to ...