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In this video, we will discuss how to write your introduction.

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We will talk about dos and don'ts, and we will see how to fully focus your research question.

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Your introduction is marked under the exploration criterion. Students often think that personal

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engagement should mainly be shown in the introduction. To clarify this, we will briefly

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address the personal engagement criterion in this video. Dos include reformulating your

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research question to create your title, connecting your IA to a specific personal experience,

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and keeping the focus on your specific topic. Let's see how these look like in our example IA.

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As you can see, I simply reformulated my research question to create the title.

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In my introduction, I mentioned a specific personal experience and briefly explained

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what a glass xylophone is. Note that I do not go into too much detail, as this would be relevant.

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Then I connect my experience to physics and specify what I will do in my investigation.

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Note that here I don't discuss general physics concepts such as how sound waves work. This

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would be too general and not specific enough to my topic. Don'ts include writing about irrelevant

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personal or historical details, explaining general physics concepts, trying to show personal

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engagement by using big words and writing a personal engagement section. We already discussed

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the first two points, so let's talk a bit about personal engagement. Personal engagement is evaluated

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holistically, in other words based on your entire IA and not just on your introduction.

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The best way to show personal engagement is to choose the topic that you're excited about

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and to do good quality work, paying attention to detail. I usually just ask students to do these

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two things and ask them to forget about trying to show personal engagement. If you are still worried

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about personal engagement, just keep in mind that it's only two out of 24 marks. You will almost

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surely get at least one out of the two marks, and the second mark that you might be worried about

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is only worth 0.83% so less than 1% of your overall physics grade. So to conclude, please do not use

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big words, for instance loving electrical circuits or being excited about circular motion, and definitely

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do not write a personal engagement section. This will almost always lower your IA mark.

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To fully focus your research question, add in specific detail, and if relevant include equipment

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information. My initial research question after brainstorming is this, and my final fully focused

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research question is this. As you can see, I added in a bit more detail and included some

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equipment information. Finally, I placed my research question at the end of the first paragraph.

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This completes step two action one. Now you know how to write your introduction.

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In the next video, we will discuss how to write your background information.