Review your invention writing to see if you have already written something that would work to launch your essay, or try out one or two ways of beginning your essay—possibly from the list that follows:
A scenario (like O’Malley)
Statistics (like Kornbluh)
News events demonstrating the seriousness of the problem (like Bornstein)
A quotation that highlights support for your solution (like Brownell and Frieden)
A comparison with other places where the solution has been tried successfully
A preview of the negative consequences if the problem goes unsolved