Monday, 17^th December 2012…

Today we all study about writing. Our lecturer teaches us about how to write an introduction. The purposes of the introductory paragraph are to get the reader attention, set tone for the rest of the essay and to make a contrast with the reader. In introduction, we must have three elements which is hook, transition and thesis statement. The hook is the beginning to write an introduction. The hook is the phrase that used to attract people to read the essay. The transition is the phrase that used to connect the hook and the thesis statement. In thesis statement we can write the main idea for the topic. There are seven kind of hook which is personal examples, quotations, facts or statistics, rhetorical questions, current events, contrast to the thesis statement and last but not least definition. The personal examples must be provided strong, dramatic incidents to use. While you can make up the personal experience, be careful that it sounds credible. Personal observation was different from the personal example, an observation is something you saw happening. When you use quotations, the content should be dramatic, emotionally appealing, surprising and humorous. Quote does not have to be from the famous person, it just needs to be relevant to thesis statement. Then, when you use facts or statistics, it must be startling or unusual. It also should be from a credible source. Next using the rhetorical questions, the question was not for you to answer it but the question is for you to thinks about it. Then use the current events, the event must be recent, important and it should be made public for example newspaper, television, radio and so on. The other hook is using contrast to the thesis statement. It should be in direct contrast to the thesis statement and it must be fun to prove an expert wrong about the topic. Last but not least is using the definition. After our lecturer has explain it, she divided us into seven groups, two groups will be four members and the rest of the group will only have three members. Each group must write an introduction using the seven type hook. My group write the introduction using the personal examples. That’s all from me for today…