Before writing an essay introduction, identify the purpose you pursue. Do you have to provide arguments for or against something?
 
Do you need to convince your reader of the significance and accuracy of your personal statements? Once you clarify what is expected from you, you are ready to work on your essay introductions. Now you need to make the following steps:

• Identify a problem under discussion. It means that you need to clarify the angle that you will consider a problem from. In other words, narrow the topic of your essay up to a certain problem;
• Turn it into a thesis statement. Since a thesis statement is the most important part of every essay introduction, you should pay special attention to the formulation of your thesis statement. However, you should not be disappointed or give way to despair in case your thesis statement sounds roughly, since you will edit it further on;
• Think over the possible ways of introducing the chosen problem. You may use quotations, simply state the most generally known facts about the chosen problem or present it in another more creative way in your essay introduction;
• Compose your essay introduction. While writing your essay introduction, remember that no matter what way of presenting the problem you will choose, all the ideas from the beginning of your essay introduction up to your thesis statement should be described gradually and logically;

• Edit your essay introduction. It is better to edit your essay introduction after the paper is completed. This will help you correct all the shortcomings and add required changes to your essay introductions.

Writing any kind of an essay on any topic requires much attention to be paid to an essay introduction. If you follow the tips given, your essay introductions will certainly sound perfectly.
 
You can also get more information on writing an essay from our “Five paragraph essay” article.