Academic skills workshop: Writing effective introductions
When:
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Venue:
Online
This workshop is for Birkbeck students. Book your place in My Birkbeck / Events and Workshops (not sure how to do that? Watch this short video guide!). If you use the link above to book, please use your Birkbeck student email address to sign up - thanks!
- Do you start all your essays with ‘In this essay, I will …’ or ‘This essay will …’?
- Do you get feedback on assignments that your introduction is weak or unclear?
- Are you unsure about what you are supposed to write in the introduction of assignments?
If your answer to any of these questions is yes, then you may benefit from attending this workshop.
The introduction of an essay or assignment is very important, because the introduction sets the reader up to understand your argument and the structure of the main body of the essay. In this workshop, we will consider the typical structure and content of effective, and we’ll analyse examples of introductions to identify their structure and the language used to achieve this. We’ll also consider some of the academic phrases you can use to help you write your own introductions effectively.
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This online workshop is delivered via Microsoft Teams. You will receive a confirmation in your email inbox after you register for the workshop, and the Teams link will be available about an hour before the start of the workshop. It's intended for enrolled Birkbeck students only.
Many of our workshops are repeated numerous times throughout the academic year. Recordings and resources from workshops are also available via this link to the Birkbeck Study Skills Moodle module (student login required).
The full listing of Study Skills workshops for this term can be viewed here. For 1-to-1 study support, find out more about the helpdesk via this link, or about school-specific tutors and resources via this link.
Contact name: Kerry Bannister
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