Writing an Introduction
The introduction of your Global Classrooms’ position paper should provide a synopsis of the basic facts of the topic of debate, with a slight skew (or prejudice/bias) towards your own country’s position. It should address the main issues of the debate, why the UN should care, why your country cares, and should end with your country’s position.
The introduction should be 4-5 sentences, or 2-3 longer, more developed sentences.
This page contains a guided outline of how you should structure your introduction, along with questions you should be answering. The following page contains an example. DO NOT simply copy the information from the example or you will receive no credit.
Re-write the answers to the Position Paper Questions in paragraph form. Connect the answers using transition words, explaining ideas in a way that makes sense. This should sound like a formal essay that presents the information in a clear and logical, structured way.
OUTLINE:
Heading:
Name of Country
Name of Committee (World Bank)
Name of School (IES El Pinar)
Topic (Combating Income Inequality to Achieve the 2030 Poverty Reduction Goals)
First Sentence: Why is the topic of ________________ important for the committee to address? Think about how the problem is throughout the world!
✓ Make sure to have an interesting/exciting first sentence that grabs the reader’s attention
✓ Start off general and assume the reader doesn’t know anything
Second Sentence: What is the debate over the topic?
✓ Provide a quick summary of the debate so that your reader knows where you are coming from and what the tension or problem is. Think of the subtopics.
✓ Why does something need to be done?
Third/Fourth Sentence: Why does your country care about the topic? Does your country suffer from this issue? How does the issue of ________________ affect your country and/or countries similar to yours?
✓ Does your country _______________________?
✓ This is a good place to use quotes or statistics to support what you are saying
Fourth/Fifth Sentence: What is your country’s opinion/attitude towards this topic?
✓ Does your country believe that we should talk about this problem?
✓ Is your country in favor of taking action in the debate? Will your country try to solve the problems before it is too late?
✓ Remember to have a strong ending that will stick in the reader’s mind.