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This advice might be best left on one side when you are trying to get words on the page – you certainly don’t want your inner editor inhibiting you. But writing is a bit more like speaking than we sometimes realise. When we talk, we often take into account our audience. We sense, or try to sense, how well they are understanding what we are trying to communicate and what they feel about it. We can’t get that sort of live feedback when we write, but we can try to think about how our reader(s) might relate to what we are writing. Starting an essay without an introduction is a very clear signal that the writer is not thinking about their reader, but is just keen to cram down whatever they have in their mind connected with the essay topic. By contrast, a thoughtful, intelligent introduction gives the sense of the author relating to their reader in what they write – not with ‘witty’ messages to the reader in brackets (you know what I mean, don’t you?), but with an intelligent outline of what the essay is all about.