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Questions about introduction part of each academic publication, paper or book, the format, what to write in, etc.

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What should I put in the Introduction as opposed to the Literature Review?

The introduction is commonly composed of (1) an opening; (2) a literature review; and (3) a description of the current study. … By this breakdown, what I call the opening is what you call the introduction. The opening is commonly between 1 and 5 paragraphs. …
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Should first introductory paragraph explicitly state the subject of the paper?

The opening of an introduction should generally introduce the aim of the research, the importance of the research, the gap in the literature that is addressed, and the method adopted to achieve the aim … In particular I wrote up an article deconstruction of an introduction that used the "aim-first" approach here where the first-sentence started with "The purpose of this study was ..." . …
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When to refer to a paper as "seminal"

I would understand "seminal" to indicate that (a) the paper was the the first in some sense, and (b) that it led to a lot of subsequent research. For example, a paper proposes and tests a theoretical …
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