What academic language may be useful in an introduction?

5. Language for Providing an Outline

Finally, should your thesis statement also require an outline in which the writer provides the main ideas of each body paragraph in the essay, then the following language structures may be useful for you:

• This essay demonstrates that reading speed, classroom participation, and students’ willingness to communicate are all factors which are improved through the use of modern technology in the classroom.
• It has been found that high equipment costs, insufficient teacher training and low-quality digital materials all contribute to the inefficiencies of using technology in the classroom.

And should you need to include a counter argument with the main arguments of your outline, then the following structure may be of use:

• Although it has been found that technology may increase reading speed, this essay argues that a combination of high equipment costs and low-quality digital materials outweighs the benefits of using technology in the language classroom.

Now that we’ve discussed the purpose of an essay introduction, the elements that are commonly used, the different structures that may be followed, and the language that can be helpful to an academic, you may wish to check your comprehension of these four chapters by downloading and completing our beginner-, intermediate– and advanced-level worksheets.