Generally speaking, the introduction accounts for 10% of the words in the whole paper. A 4000-word paper can be written into three paragraphs with ***400 words.

1, providing background information.

At the beginning of the introduction, readers should prepare the detailed information they will see later, so that the first few sentences will be more general.

2. Introduce the clear theme of your research and explain its importance.

From the above example, we can see that the author begins to talk about clear research topics. Then, you can introduce some statistics to illustrate the importance of this topic or the seriousness of the problem.

3. Mention the previous work that tried to solve or answer this research question.

4. End with a clear research goal.