Readers always take Introductions as the conceptual basis for the rest of the text.
They use it to create a cognitive framework of concepts, story lines, attitudes, and other elements of the mental scenario they will build as they read. The more effectively your introduction prepares readers, the better they will understand what follows. Readers can only build this scenario if they can organize the information in the text because they know what to expect. When it succeeds, the Introduction does more than any other part of the text to control readers developing sense of the coherence and meaning of the whole. It establishes What ' s at Stake for readers by relating matters developed in the text to some need, problem, or interest that can play a role in the readers' life and work.