Introduction (essay)

In an essay or article, an introduction is a beginning section which states the purpose and goals of the following writing. This generally followed by the body and conclusion, and may be preceded by an abstract.

Related Topics:
Essay - Body - Conclusion - Abstract

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The introduction describes the scope of the document. It gives the brief explanation or you can say a summary of the document. The readers can have idea about the following text before they actually start reading it.

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Keeping the concept of introduction same, different documents have different style to introduce the written text. For example, when you introduce a Functional Specification, the introduction consists of information what the whole document has to explain. If a Userguide is written, the introduction is about the product. If you go for a report, the introduction will tell you a summary about the report contents.

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