Date: 12 May 2015 Time: 12.00-13.30
Route: Campus Woodland Walk
Walking Seminar 1 Discussion Topic: How to start? (Re-used from TWS @ UvA)
The introduction of a paper/article/chapter is crucial. The first sentences set the tone. They frame what is to come afterwards. And they might decide whether a reader lays to the side the paper or actually continues reading.
So, how to start a paper or chapter? How to write the introduction?
Take the paper/chapter you are working on at the moment with its topic, material and argument.
How do you plan to start the paper?Take the paper/chapter you are working on at the moment with its topic, material and argument.How do you plan to start the paper?What might be a good first sentence? And more generally, how do you introduce the topic?Do you begin with the case? A general problem? A puzzle? A gap in the literature?What do you give away in the beginning? What do you need to spare for later?Have you thought about possible alternatives for this paper/chapter? What else might work?
And how have others solved these problems? How did the introductions of the articles you have read recently look like? Can you remember introductions that were in some way or another extraordinary? What made them particularly seductive, interesting, memorable?
MEET (Location): Bowland North Quad (nearer the spine) (number 23 on http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/maps/campus.pdf )
TERRAIN/FOOOTWEAR: Woodland walk – some mud possible.
Contact: s.t.wright@lancaster.ac.uk
Who can attend: Anyone