For ANY essay at National 5 we need to make sure our introduction contains TARTSS.

• We need to have:
• Title of the text
• Author
• REFER TO TASK
• Summary of plot leaning towards task of no more than three sentences
• Signpost about what is to come in the rest of the essay (Thanks Joe Hartley for that one!)

Here’s a copy of the slide we annotated to help you remember this. This is the structure of every critical essay introduction you should follow. This is also applicable to Higher English too.