Writing essays can be hard. Writing an essay introduction is even harder, but perhaps not for the reasons you think. I want you to imagine you’ve been assigned to read and grade 30 essays next week. You sit down, grab the first paper off the stack, and start to peruse.
Oops, you’re already bored. Good thing you only have 30,000 more words to read, right?!
But what if that first paper you pulled wasn’t boring? What would make it instantly stand out?…
