Introduction
A checklist:
- Introduction to and motivation behind the research topic (“the outline of the problem”, according to ‘t Hart et al., 2009).
- The objective
- The central question
- Sub-questions
- Academic and societal relevance
Explain every element. Make your thought processes clear to the reader. This means that you should not just list the sub-questions, but introduce them. You will first need to discuss A to make B understandable, etc. Although many personal decisions are discussed in the introduction, you should not use the first-person singular (‘I’).