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Writing Technical Articles This site provides an overview to writing technical articles including a section on writing introductions.

Grant Proposals This site provides a discussion of writing grant proposals including a section on writing introductions.

Online Technical Writing: Abstracts, Introductions, and Conclusions This site provides brief overviews with linked fuller explanations of abstracts, introductions, and conclusions.

Introductions and Conclusions (Adapted from A Beginner's Guide to Technical Communication) This site provides a brief discussion of both introductions and conclusions in technical writing.

Introductions (Language and Learning Online) This site provides a brief discussion of introductions with examples and analysis. You will need to click on the highlighted sections to view the embedded contextualization comments which are embedded.

Sample Introductions

Listed below are pages with sample document introductions; the sample conclusions listed in 10:

• The Commerce of Content Management Report: Preliminary Report of "What Do We Manage? A Survey of the Management Portfolios of Large Technical Communication Departments."
• Global Security: General Overview
• Demographic and School Characteristics of Students Receiving Special Education in the Elementary Grades. The first four paragraphs of this report are its introduction. This report will download as a PDF file. It was written by the National Center for Education Statistics, a division of the U.S. Department of Education.
• Consumer/Survivor-Operated Self-Help Programs: A Technical Report. This report summarizes and makes recommendations based on studies of services run by and for individuals with psychiatric disabilities. It was prepared by a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
• The Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Transportation. This report summarizes the potential effects of rise in sea level on transportation systems along the Atlantic coast of the United States. It was prepared by a division of the U.S. Department of Transportation's Center for Climate Change and Environmental Forecasting. The report will download as a PDF file.