Introductions

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Introductions

• Hook- Write 1-2 sentences that appeal to a broad
  audience and deal with issues related to your
  topic but do not yet introduce your specific
  points.
• Transition to your Main Points
• State your thesis specifying your topic,
  position, and main points.

Begin with a broad statement Move to More
Specific
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Last Name
Name Teacher (Prof) Period (Course) Date Title of
Essay Hook your audience by appealing to the
more interesting and popular aspects of a general
audience. Next you will have to transition into a
brief explanation that alludes to the reason of
your three main points are a part of your topic
choice. Then you follow the main points with the
thesis statement which is the focus of your
entire paper. If you do not feel that your thesis
can also work as a transition, you will also need
a transition sentence that makes a connection
with your following body paragraph.
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Example of Hook Sentence

• Throughout the ages, men have concerned
  themselves with the magic of flight. During the
  dawn of flight, hundreds of individuals died as a
  result of their passion to defy the laws of
  gravity.

Remember to think of your audience!!
What is interesting to others?
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You Try It!

• Write a hook for the following thesis statement
• The character Frank in the movie Osmosis Jones
  exhibits the behavior typical of most unhealthy
  Americans.
• Or
• Many people create emotional walls around
  themselves as protection from emotional injuries
  as typified by the character Shrek.

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Highlighting Your Main Points

• In 1-3 sentences simply and subtly present the
  main points of the essay.
• Your main points will later become the topic
  sentences of the body paragraphs.

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Example

• The Wright Brothers began the American
  fascination with the possibility of flight.
  Glenn Curtiss helped to further the reality of
  flight by creating the airplanes first engine.
  Finally, Lindburg held the world in a captivated
  trance as he made the first solo flight across
  the Atlantic.

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Now You Try It

• Based on the thesis statement I gave you and the
  hook you have already written, write 1-3
  sentences exploring possible subtopics of
  American Health.

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Thesis Statement
A Thesis specifically identifies the main
direction of the paper
Thesis statements include a positional statement

• Early American pilots such as the Wrights
  Brothers, Curtiss, and Lindburg helped to
  stimulate the imagination of the world and
  further the progress of aviation to what it is
  today.

Specify Main Points
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Optional Transition Sentence

• Although there were many factors to aid in
  flights evolution, the most event of these
  concerns the Industrial Revolution.

The purpose of this sentence is to make a
connection between the current and the following
paragraph