Key ingredients:
1. Hook:
Grab your reader's attention right away! Your first sentence is the reader's first impression of you and your topic. Here are a few do's and don'ts for writing a hook:
Do's:
Don'ts:
Grab your reader's attention right away! Your first sentence is the reader's first impression of you and your topic. Here are a few do's and don'ts for writing a hook:
Do's:
- Be creative.
- Use an anecdote.
- Open with an unusual detail or statistic, startling or striking fact from an authoritative source (LOGOS).
- Open with a strong statement.
- Open with a quotation mark.
Don'ts:
- Avoid starting your essay with a question.
- Avoid starting with a cliche.
- Avoid starting with a long, obscure quote.
2.TAG:
EXAMPLE: Jimmy Santiago Baca recounts the debilitating effects of living life without language in his personal narrative, "Coming Into Language."
3. Claim:
- Title - Briefly introduce title.
- Author - Who is the author.
- Genre - What genre is the piece.
- Brief summary - Don't assume your reader knows what the piece was about.
EXAMPLE: Jimmy Santiago Baca recounts the debilitating effects of living life without language in his personal narrative, "Coming Into Language."
3. Claim:
- Also known as your thesis statement and your position on a topic.