Introduction
The Introduction is important in persuasive writing to strongly open your essay and to make the reader interested. You should outline your answer to the question you are arguing, also define the key terms in the question. Briefly summarise the main points you will be making in your case.
- Like we said before it is important to open the essay well to make your reader interested there are many ways that you can do this. For example:
-Open with a quotation.
e.g. Education is the most powerful weapon, which you can use to change the world.
-Start with an unusual detail about your topic.
e.g. the average monthly phone bill in the UK is £36.00.
-Open with a strong statement.
e.g. Everybody has the right to be married.
-Begin with an anecdote.
e.g. Imagine you are walking down the street when you notice someone following you and you want to call someone, but you donít have a phone.
-Start with a statistic or fact.
e.g. 158, 683 people died of lung cancer in the US in 2007.
-Begin with a question.
e.g. How would you like to know your children are at sport breathing in the smog of smokers?
-Open with an exaggeration or outrageous comment.
e.g. Children are so attached to their computers these days that soon they won't be able to use a pencil.
Once you have used your snappy opening and the reader wants to continue reading you write your thesis statement.
e.g. There should be an absolute ban against smoking in public because secondhand smoke endangers the health of non-smokers, it's unpleasant to non-smokers and it is bad for tourism to have smokers everywhere.
Now that you have made your opening introduction continue onto the next page to see how to write your main body.
- Like we said before it is important to open the essay well to make your reader interested there are many ways that you can do this. For example:
-Open with a quotation.
e.g. Education is the most powerful weapon, which you can use to change the world.
-Start with an unusual detail about your topic.
e.g. the average monthly phone bill in the UK is £36.00.
-Open with a strong statement.
e.g. Everybody has the right to be married.
-Begin with an anecdote.
e.g. Imagine you are walking down the street when you notice someone following you and you want to call someone, but you donít have a phone.
-Start with a statistic or fact.
e.g. 158, 683 people died of lung cancer in the US in 2007.
-Begin with a question.
e.g. How would you like to know your children are at sport breathing in the smog of smokers?
-Open with an exaggeration or outrageous comment.
e.g. Children are so attached to their computers these days that soon they won't be able to use a pencil.
Once you have used your snappy opening and the reader wants to continue reading you write your thesis statement.
e.g. There should be an absolute ban against smoking in public because secondhand smoke endangers the health of non-smokers, it's unpleasant to non-smokers and it is bad for tourism to have smokers everywhere.
Now that you have made your opening introduction continue onto the next page to see how to write your main body.