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academic writer: organization: introductions: problems
Highlighting a problem
One way in which you could start your paper is to highlight
a particular problem in your opening paragraph. You would probably then go on to outline
how you are going to structure the rest of your paper. This would be typically be a problem solution format. You may then make a
recommendation on the highlighted problem
in the concluding paragraph.
EXAMPLE
| The significance of the writing product in
contemporary US university English writing instruction There seems to be a conflict between the methods we composition instructors employ in teaching writing and the requirements for success in freshman composition courses. Students are encouraged to focus on the writing process, but they are evaluated primarily upon the production of a product, usually the "academic" essay. Even when students are allowed to revise graded papers, or when grades are delayed until student and teacher agree that the essay is "finished" to the best of the student's ability, the implicit message remains the same: the point of the process is the product. Thus the writing process all too often becomes, in students' eyes, a waste of time. In this paper I would like to investigate this problem; in particular, students' attitudes to contemporary methods of writing instruction. |
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