Here comes your footer  Page 1 GETTING YOUR OPENING PARAGRAPH RIGHT

Here comes your footer  Page 2 Keep 2 questions in mind: 1.Does your introduction clearly pave the way for what is about to come? 2.Would anyone want to read it?

Here comes your footer  Page 3 Your introduction should: 1. state the point; and 2. grab your reader‘s interest.

Here comes your footer  Page 4 To state your point,  take the personal experience; and  apply it in a larger context – perhaps referring to a social theme.  Reading 1

Here comes your footer  Page 5 To grab the reader‘s interest  do that at sentence one introduce a quote cite an interesting fact bring in a bit of humour ask a question

Here comes your footer  Page 6  don‘t begin your essay with unengaging statements  This essay will discuss the pros and cons of studying abroad.  I will write about when I discovered ice-skating and how it made me who I am today.

Here comes your footer  Page 7  don‘t make hollow statements  The world‘s population crisis has reached an extreme proportion.

Here comes your footer  Page 8  don‘t state the obvious  don’t include dry definitions

Here comes your footer  Page 9 To grab the reader‘s interest  choose vivid words figurative language descriptive words action words a variety of sentence structures use of the active voice interesting vocabulary