Introductions Review

SELECT ALL THAT APPLY-The purpose of an introduction is to:

• Draw the reader in

• Prepare your reader for the direction the essay will go in

• Allow the reader to know what evidence you will be using

• Use proper parenthetical citations

What acronym is used to remember what belongs in an introduction paragraph?

• ABC

• ABT

• ABBA

• BTS

What does the a stand for?

• Attention Getter

• Announcement

• Appraisals

• Anyeonghaseyo

True or false: Begin with a hook that will grab the audience's attention.

• True

• False

TRUE or False: Attention getters/hooks are usually between 1 and 3 sentences.

• True

• False

True/False: There is only one way to write an attention getter.

• False

• True

What does the B in ABT stand for?

• Bridge

• Bangtan Sonyeondan

• Basketball

• Believe

What does the bridge do?

• Connects the ideas in the hook to the ideas in the thesis statement

• Provides evidence to back up your stance

• Allows the reader to know what you are going to mention in your writing

SELECT ALL THAT APPLY-The thesis statement:

• Takes a solid and clear position on a topic

• The last sentence of the introduction

• Needs to be a statement and not a question

• Should not contain first or second-person pronouns

• Belongs at the beginning of your introduction

A standard paragraph should contain how many sentences?

• 5

• 4

• 6

• 4.5