Hi Everyone,

After several long months of hard work, I am currently in the final two weeks of my writing my thesis. I'm doing an MA in English Literature, and have a word limit of 25,000 words. I'm well on my way to being finished (finally!) but I've hit a stumbling block at the introduction of my thesis.

Exactly how long should a good introduction be? I've found that I've really being running out of steam, and lately whenever I sit down at the computer I have to practically force the words out.

As it stands, I have about 5 pages (doubled spaced) and I feel I've pretty much said everything I need to say. I was just wondering what would be the average length of an introduction?

Thanks!