“How to Develop The Best Introductory Paragraph”.
The paragraph is divided into 3 sections:
a) The hook - Designed to grab attention immediately and give some indication about the essay’s topic.
b) The Transition - Moves the reader from the hook to the driving force of the essay….
c) The Thesis - Makes the contract with the reader about what will be discussed without a blatant announcement.
There are 7 types of hook that we can choose to write the paragraph. There are
1. Personal examples
2. Quotations
3. Facts or statistics
4. Rhetorical questions
5. Current events
6. Contrast to the thesis statement
7. Definition
Below are the types of hook with the examples:
· Red represent hook
· Green represent transition
· Indigo represent thesis
PERSONAL EXAMPLE
First time I saw him at the bus station. He was alone by himself. He was very messy with his tattered cloths and only with barefooted. I felt pity of him and I want to help him as I could. I went to him and try to talk to him. Suddenly, he cried by my side because nobody wanted to be around him. I tried to calm him as he explained his situation. I felt very sad when I listen to his problems, he has seven children who are still young and his wife is a disabled woman. Coincidently, he was lucky that my father needs a gardener to help him to look after our gardens. Pak Abu is now our gardener at home. As a matter of fact, Pak Abu’s experiences of poverty life make him really suffered and it effected his life completely. Thus, the effects of poor and poverty can be seen physically, psychologically and socially in a person’s daily life.
QUOTATIONS
“I am tired of being poor, this is humiliating.” A young girl said to herself. She never asked for this poverty fate. She was born in a poor family. She could not own anything that other teens have. I am that young girl. This poverty stopped many people from achieve their dreams. Apart from that, many of these unfortunate teens do not know that they can seek help to improve their life. This poverty can be improved by government giving help through their children’s education, economy welfare and motivation as a self-improvement.
FACTS OR STATISTICS
According to Utusan Malaysia, 45 thousands of foreign workers migrated to Malaysia legally to fill up the opportunity of jobs here. Most of the foreign workers are coming from Indonesia, Myanmar and Thailand. This situation has caused a problem to local workers as 45 thousand people in Malaysia have been unemployed. Thus, unemployment of local workers more or less gives a lot of negative effect especially to Malaysia such as the crime rate will increase, money exchange frequently done by foreign workers and the income level of local workers will decrease.
RHETORICAL QUESTIONS
Did you know that each year college students spent a lot of money on alcohol? This is more than they spend on soft drink, milk, juice, tea, coffee and books combined. Why do college students spend so much money to get drunk at the end of a hard week of studying? It is because there is nothing else to do or is it because drinking relieves problem that the person is trying to avoid. One of the major problems of alcohol is related to the cognitive dissonance. Drinking alcohol has an effect on students’ cognitive dissonance such as a connection between how much students drink, their dissonance level and what causes the student loss their dissonance.
CURRENT EVENTS
In 2007, the Star newspaper reported that an IPTS student in Segamat has dumped a baby in a plastic bag into a big drain. The baby which his umbilical cord is still intact was found by a good Samaritan. Two years later, Malaysia was shocked again by the same news: A fisherman had accidently fished a black plastic bag which he taught it was an ordinary plastic bag that had been littered by the irresponsible persons. He then opened the plastic bag out of curiosity and then was horrified for what he saw. A decayed baby!. This news proved that the statistics of social problems are increasing up until now. Thus, to ace these social problems, one should have a strong moral value, parents should play their roles effectively and one should use media wisely.
CONTRAST TO THE THESIS STATEMENT
Since the back of thousands years ago, alcohol has been famous and promoted in human lives. In chemistry, alcohol has been used for many things such as to produce ethanol and methanol which are commonly used in medication. Ethanol is used to treat methanol poisoning by reducing the rate of which methanol is metabolised. Research in the last few years found that there are a lot of advantages of alcohol such as the source of energy in the diet and can release our stress. However, nowadays alcohol leads to many harmful drawbacks. Thus, the disadvantages of alcohol can cause liver’s damage, poor judgement, and effect of our brain.
DEFINITION
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is defined as a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) known as a deadly virus that was originated in the early 80’s of the twentieth century. What do you think once you see the patient of AIDS? Do you feel scared or disgusted?. Unfortunately, many of us do not know what AIDS patients had gone through in their lives with this disease. Some of them get the disease in advertent but some of them get it because of themselves. This disease has become a serious crisis for the whole world today. Due to the above statements, AIDS can give many bad effects to a person’s life such as it leads to fatal, it wastes money to get treatments and being ignored by the society .
