
Purdue University Coffin, Caroline and Rupert Wegerif. " Introductions." The Writing Lab and The OWL. These “moves” and steps can be used as a template for writing the introduction to your own social sciences research papers.

The model proposes three actions, accompanied by specific steps, that reflect the development of an effective introduction for a research paper. The model assumes that writers follow a general organizational pattern in response to two types of challenges relating to establishing a presence within a particular domain of research: 1) the competition to create a rhetorical space and, 2) the competition to attract readers into that space. Model can be useful approach because it can help you to: 1) begin the writing process 2) understand the way in which an introduction sets the stage for the rest of your paper and, 3) assess how the introduction fits within the larger scope of your study. His model attempts to explain and describe the organizational pattern of writing the introduction to scholarly research studies.

The Creating a Research Space Model was developed by John Swales based upon his analysis of journal articles representing a variety of discipline-based writing practices.
