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essay help
any tips on how to write a hook for the first sentence of any essay?
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Generally, it's the last thing I do.
It really depends on how formal the essay is. If it's informal, a question or joke can work. If it's formal, keep it simple--if it's a persuasive essay, state your point of view in a straight-forward, firm way, for example:
Every man and every woman has the right to get married. It is imperative that we do not deny them this right.
It doesn't have to be as much of a hook, but it should be to the point, and strongly worded. Then, of course, you can launch into your thesis statement . . .
Yeah, I'm a bit of an English dork.
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You have to catch the readers attention. I always do questions, they seem easiest and best at catching somebodys eye =]
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I usually use something totally off topic, then relate it to what I'm writing about.
For instance, in the last essay I wrote for my AP Lit class, I wrote about how Saw 3 led the box office on its opening weekend, and that the Saw movies are famous for being extremely gorey and bloody. Then I went on to say how the publics intrest in blood and gore was not a new development, that Shakespeare's Macbeth is one of his most popular, AND one of his bloodiest. My paper was on the blood motif in Macbeth.
You can also start with a quote, definition, or surprising comment.
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use "imagine if you had to _______" and state the situation in the story. then say "this is what ____ had to do in the novel _____"
or use a quote from the story and then say "said ______"
or make it boring like
"in the novel ____, a young girl named _____ must cope with ___ and succeed to _____" or put in the parts that your going to talk about in the essay
good luck! if ya need anythin else lemme know
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Quote, fact, story, question, joke - depending on what kind of essay it is.
Those are the things my lower level English teachers told me to use, and I write essays all the time.
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