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Summary Task

Critiquing Research Report Introductions

We've discussed some of the properties of good Report Introductions. Now let's look at some authentic student examples and see if we can apply those criteria to a critique of some introductory paragraphs.

TASKHere are some Introductory paragraphs from Proposals for Research Reports (the tenses will vary from actual Reports, and the titles have not been refined to reflect the context of the studies):

Look through them and work out how they might be improved in terms of their Organisation & Argumentation: refer to the ‘Functional Structure of an Introduction’ diagram.