Wednesday
16 January 2013


         Introductory Essay


Today we were learnt how to do a perfect introductory paragraph by using 1 or more hooks to grab reader's attention before we make our own. I show you what we learnt this evening:

The function of introductory

¨It attracts the reader’s interest to continue reading the essay / Get the readers’ attention.

¨It supplies background information needed to understand the essay.

¨It presents a thesis statement, the main idea of the essay, usually towards the end of the introduction.

¨It indicates a plan of the essay’s development (optional).

¨Set tone for the rest of the essay

The part of the introductory paragraph 

¨The Hook - Designed to grab attention immediately and give
 some indication about the essay’s topic

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¨The Transition - Moves the reader from the hook to the driving force of the essay….

¨The Thesis Statement - Makes the contract with the reader about what will be discussed without a blatant announcement.

  So Fikri and i decided to write our introductory paragraph by using Quotation as our hook. Below is the example of quotation hook that we preferred to:

¨“I am stupid. I am never going back to school.” These are the words spoken by a learning disabled child when he was in first grade. He cried as he slowly walked to his bedroom, shredding his schoolwork into small pieces. This was the first of many times when he and his parents would feel frustrated because there was nothing that they could do. Parents of children with learning disabilities have often felt unprepared to help their children with their handicaps and frustrated with attempts to seek the proper placement of them in the public-school system. The experience of school can be overwhelming for children who have trouble learning. The learning disabled student in the public educational system must deal with academic, social, and emotional problems.