Spring 2025: Monday January 27, February 3, February 10, and February 24, 3:30-4:30 on Zoom. Please sign up here or email dshawn@bu.edu for the Zoom link. This faculty seminar, “Introduction to ...

Learn how to write a compelling essay introduction that captures attention. Discover expert tips for crafting the perfect intro and starting your essay strong. Writing an essay introduction can feel ...

Funded by a Teaching and Learning Development Grant, this first video examines ways to improve narrative writing and what its goals are. Many students do not fully understand how to write narratives ...

Our Essential Lessons are a sequence of lessons that form the backbone of the Writing Program curriculum, illustrating what we want all students to learn across our program’s diverse course topics.

What makes a good introduction for a dissertation? Graduate students practice critiquing one another’s thesis chapters, but they rarely read the introductions — usually because those are written to ...

This is a structured comprehensive guide to writing introductions and conclusions for Intermediate level Adult ESL Students. The lessons are based on the requirements of the IELTS exam although the ...

Writing is a much-prized skill and a difficult one to master and, while some are naturally gifted in stringing sentences together, we all need to take the time to learn the craft. Whether you want to ...

Most importantly, introductions should introduce your paper. Sounds simple, right? But often, students will use the introduction to summarize the topics they will expand in the body of their paper.