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Engaging Introductions for Essays

The document provides various strategies for starting an introduction, including using questions, short stories, statistics, strong opinions, quotations, and generalizations. It offers examples for each method, such as discussing the impact of early marriage on young girls and citing statistics about healthcare issues. Additionally, it prompts readers to create hooks for various topics like education, friendship, and technology.

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Engaging Introductions for Essays

The document provides various strategies for starting an introduction, including using questions, short stories, statistics, strong opinions, quotations, and generalizations. It offers examples for each method, such as discussing the impact of early marriage on young girls and citing statistics about healthcare issues. Additionally, it prompts readers to create hooks for various topics like education, friendship, and technology.

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Introduction

HOOK
How to start your Introduction

Start with a Question 6. .1


Generalization

Start with a SHORT Story .2

Start with statistics .3

Start with a strong opinion .4

Start with a Quotation .5


Question . 1

Do you know that your phone


?can kill you

Can our dreams tell us


?something about our future
Do you believe that there is
another version of you in another
?planet

Do you think that people will be


able to choose the gender of
?their babies ( a boy or a girl )
Who do you think are better
?managers, men or women

Would you believe that men talk


?more than women
Short Story . 2

Imagine that you spend all your life


among people you love and trust the
most. And one day they decide to put
you in a prison and force you to stay
there forever knowing that you may
suffer a lot and may die as a result.
How would you feel? That’s exactly
the feeling of most young girls who
get married in a very early age of their
!lives
Statistics . 3

Seven thousand people die every


year in the US because of doctor’s
!handwriting

Every one hour a child dies in


!Yemen
A strong opinion . 4

Among all creatures on earth,


human beings are the most
!violent and brutal creatures ever
Quotation . 5

I don’t know what kind of weapons will


be used in world war 3, but people
will use Stones and sticks in world
war 4. ( Albert Einstein )

Only the foolish people allow their


enemies to teach their children.
( Malcom X )
Generalization ( funnel ) . 6

Start with general


statements and thesis
.statement
Ss write a hook for the following topics

Education
Friendship

Medicine in Yemen
Marriage

Tourism Fast
food

Technology

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