Introduction • As the diagram illustrates, all essays should have an introduction. • Indent before you begin the introductory paragraph. • No intro should have more than one paragraph.
• Preferably, that intro should simply point out what the passage is all about. --Use a sentence or two to point out the passage’s main purpose/ idea.
For example, is it about the destructive power of earthquakes?
Is it an argumentative, narrative, descriptive or expository piece?
Is the writer relating a past event, informing, describing or persuading the reader about…?
• The intro should also have a thesis statement—the last sentence in the intro.
• A thesis statement is like a shopping list, listing the points you are going to discuss in the body of your essay.
For example, “This essay will thoroughly examine three organisational strategies: definition, analogy, and illustration, as well as three language techniques: simile, metaphor, and personification.”
• Since CAPE stipulates you should not write more than 500 words, your intro should be brief—preferably no more than 5 sentences.
• Get your communication exam paper and identify the mistakes you would have made.
Introduction
ReplyDelete• As the diagram illustrates, all essays should have an introduction.
• Indent before you begin the introductory paragraph.
• No intro should have more than one paragraph.
• Preferably, that intro should simply point out what the passage is all about.
--Use a sentence or two to point out the passage’s main purpose/ idea.
For example, is it about the destructive power of earthquakes?
Is it an argumentative, narrative, descriptive or expository piece?
Is the writer relating a past event, informing, describing or persuading the reader about…?
• The intro should also have a thesis statement—the last sentence in the intro.
• A thesis statement is like a shopping list, listing the points you are going to discuss in the body of your essay.
For example, “This essay will thoroughly examine three organisational strategies: definition, analogy, and illustration, as well as three language techniques: simile, metaphor, and personification.”
• Since CAPE stipulates you should not write more than 500 words, your intro should be brief—preferably no more than 5 sentences.
• Get your communication exam paper and identify the mistakes you would have made.
Do not make the same mistake twice!
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