For the opening words of my paper, I would like to start off with some lines from a poem by a Japanese poet since my thesis is related to Japanese artists and mood disorders. I seen this way of opening in several articles on creativity and mood disorders. I don’t know if it will be appropriate to use in my paper because I am only a student in a writing class.  The book said there are three elements to an introduction: opening context, problem, and response. The introduction is explained and shown in the book as a short paragraph with probably less than 300 words. Now our introduction includes a brief literature review, analysis of methodology, among other points. I feel that the introduction in our paper is different from the one discussed in the book. I wish this book talks about doing an introduction for a literature review. I mean, are we suppose include the literature review and analysis before stating the problem or afterward?

The book points out the importance of revising the body of your argument to make it persuasive and clear before concentrating on the style of the writing. Whenever I write my papers on a word processor, I noticed I always focus on both the content and style simultaneously. It’s difficult to ignore the style since every time you make a spelling or grammatical error, MS Word will underline it automatically.