Just been giving a PhD student some feedback on a draft article and wanted to see if academic twitter agrees with what I think are the four things a good Intro to an article should do. 1) The colourful, contextual bit: introduce the topic/debate and show its importance.

2) What does this piece bring to this debate? What’s its main purpose? This may involve a brief summary of the main argument.

3) Why is what it does original and significant? Does it fill a gap in the literature? Does it challenge a dominant/standard narrative etc?

4) How do the different parts of the article that follows fit together to accomplish the article’s purposes (the route map). Critical comments welcome.
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