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Introduction Paragraph
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Introduction Paragraph
The purpose of your introduction paragraph is: To creatively grab your reader’s attention, making
her interested, wanting to read the rest of the paper.
Provide background information about the topic. To outline what your paper will be about.
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Introduction Paragraph
There are three main parts: Hook Transition Thesis Statement
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Introduction
Broad
Specific
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Hook
Purpose: Grab the reader’s attention Make the reader want to keep reading
Options for hooks: Quotes from historical or well-known figures Startling facts (NOT a piece of your evidence!) Thought-provoking statement about your topic NO Questions!!
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Hook
Example:
American author Aldous Huxley once said, “Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means of going backwards.”
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Hook
Example:
In America, 98% of students own some sort of digital device (“Positive Impact of Technology”).
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Hook
Example:
Children who used to be content playing outside with friends now spend the majority of their time isolated, in front of screens.
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Transition
Purpose: Guide the reader from the hook to the thesis
statement. Here, you should provide background information
about your topic. What is the core of the debate that is happening around your topic?
This would also be a good place to introduce both your argument and the counter.
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Transition Example:
Children who used to be content playing outside with friends now spend the majority of their time isolated, in front of screens. Many people are worried about the way that technology is affecting America’s youth. On the one hand, concerns include questions about how the overuse of technology at increasingly younger ages will negatively affect a child’s brain, health, and social interactions. However, opponents to this idea focus on how technology can help children and students when it comes to connecting with each other, completing schoolwork effectively and efficiently, and even “rewiring” their brains to think in more creative ways.
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Thesis
Purpose: Outline what you will talk about in your paper Create the structure your paper will follow
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Thesis
Example:
Although some may believe that technology has negative effects on students’ social and school habits, in reality, technology is a great benefit to students and teenagers because it helps with schoolwork, engages social skills, and enhances creativity.
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Children who used to be content playing outside with friends now spend the majority of their time isolated, in front of screens. Many people are worried about the way that technology is affecting America’s youth. On the one hand, concerns include questions about how the overuse of technology at increasingly younger ages will negatively affect a child’s brain, health, and social interactions. However, opponents to this idea focus on how technology can help children and students when it comes to connecting with each other, completing schoolwork effectively and efficiently, and even “rewiring” their brains to think in more creative ways. Although some may believe that technology has negative effects on students’ social and school habits, in reality, technology is a great benefit to students and teenagers because it helps with schoolwork, engages social skills, and enhances creativity.
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Conclusion
Purpose: To wrap up all the ideas in your paper To leave the reader with something to think about.
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Conclusion
Three main parts: Restate thesis Summary of main points Concluding thoughts
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Restate Thesis
Purpose: Bring the body of your paper back to your thesis
statement
MUST be a restatement: DO NOT copy and paste the same sentence from your introduction.
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Restate Thesis
Example:
The arguments against technology in a teenagers life may be worth considering; however, it is clear that technology is a strong benefit to students when it comes to their schoolwork, social skills, and creative ability.
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Summary of Main Points
Purpose: Briefly show how the body of your paper proved
your thesis
Summarize each body paragraph in one sentence.
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Summary of Main Points Example:
First, technology strongly helps students complete schoolwork effectively with the use of online research sources, and increases communication with their teachers.
Also, technology enhances teenager’s social skills by providing ways to meet new people online, as well as maintain relationships with family and friends who may be far away.
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Final Thoughts
Purpose: Apply your paper to a more universal context Give the reader something to think about after
they’re finished reading your paper
Hint: It may be a good idea to tie back into your hook, as it will bring your paper full circle – a good way to give closure.
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Final Thoughts Example:
It is clear that the use of technology should not be shunned among parents and teachers, but rather, embraced. While teenagers today may be different than teenagers in the past, that has been the case with every generation. The use of technology is creating a better tomorrow with a more capable youth.
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Notes! You paper should not include (in the intro or
otherwise) : 1st or 2nd personal pronouns (I, me, my; you, your;
we us, our) Any phrase that says “what this paper will be
about” or what “I (or we) will discuss” This will make me
Contractions (can’t, don’t, won’t, she’ll, etc.)