Joshua Schimel, "Writing Science: How to Write Papers That Get Cited and Proposals That Get Funded" (Oxford UP, 2011)
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The Story Teller's Art
In a good introduction, you're not just trying to tell people everything we know about a field. You're trying to either identify the gap in what we know or fill it with new information. The idea of you must show that whole or that error is what engages a reader and makes them want to read your paper. None of us have the time to just read every paper that presents a new body of information. There'sy too much of us for us to do that. We want to have new questions answered and to be drawn in. And that's what that introduction does. It takes us and says, from this problem, here's theerror, or here's the whole, and
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