Providing a hook in your introduction
The following strategies can provide a hook for your reader, whether you are composing a traditional essay or a multimodal work such as a slide presentation or a video.
- Offering a startling statistic or an unusual fact
- Asking a question
- Introducing a quotation or a bit of dialogue
- Providing historical background
- Defining a term or concept
- Proposing a problem, contradiction, or dilemma
- Using a vivid example or image
- Developing an analogy
- Relating an anecdote
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