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Introducing Your Essay

Introducing Your Essay. How Do I Start This Thing?. The Basics. Hook – General Topic Presentation of Subject -DHR -Texts: Titles and Authors Thesis. Avoid Boring Introductions. The Placeholder Vague sentences that don’t say much The Restated Question

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Introducing Your Essay

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  1. Introducing Your Essay How Do I Start This Thing?

  2. The Basics Hook – General Topic Presentation of Subject -DHR -Texts: Titles and Authors Thesis

  3. Avoid Boring Introductions • The Placeholder • Vague sentences that don’t say much • The Restated Question • Sums up the prompt; For this assignment, this would be the kind of introduction that just summarized DHR • The Webster’s Dictionary • The “Dawn of Man” • Connects to relevance by stating that the issue has been around forever • The Book Report • Just sums up titles Adapted from http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/introductions/

  4. Considerations for Introductions that Work • Why are you writing this paper? • Why is your topic relevant? • What aspect of your topic do you want to showcase? • What important terms need to be defined (in your words) for the good of your argument?

  5. Techniques to Consider • Connect to a modern source to show relevance. • Use a significant metaphor to introduce your topic. • Present facts, statistics, etc. about your topic. • Open with a bold, challenging statement.

  6. Concluding Your Essay I Wrote It. Now What?

  7. The Basics • Revisit Argument • Synthesize Major Points • So What • Demonstrate Importance • Promote Continued Thinking

  8. Techniques to Avoid • Beginning with “In conclusion” or some other overused and obvious transition. • Rewriting your thesis exactly. • Introducing a new idea or subtopic. • Making overly emotional appeals that don’t fit with the rest of the paper. • Including evidence that would be better suited for the body. Adapted from http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/conclusions/

  9. Strategies for Successful Conclusions • Ask “So what?” or “Why should anyone care?” • Return to the theme, data, anecdote, etc. from the introduction. • Show how points in body fit together; synthesize, don’t summarize. • Propose a solution or a call to action for this issue. • Provide questions for further study. • Point to larger implications. Adapted from http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/conclusions/

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