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We're making a change to the way that we release work for our classes. The main lessons (the things that we'll do in class each day) will now be found at the site "Optimal Beneficial Moreover Detrimental: Classroom." We're keeping this site, with a slightly different name, in order to release a reading a day for students to practice their reading at home. Each post will contain a link to a reading, along with a list of assignments that can be completed for that reading.

Monday, October 7, 2013

6.1. Writing an Introduction for a Logical Essay W.1.a.

This week, we're learning how to turn the theses we wrote last week into introductions that use rhetorical questions and sophisticated, formal language.

Here's a video that shows how to do this in the easiest way possible. Remember, all of our classic versions of these will look like this - 

Don't you wish that there was a easy way to write a good introduction for your persuasive essays? If we master a pattern, can't we then save time to use to learn other things? Don't people use these kinds of formulas all the time to solve problems? Recently, students have come to me and said, "We don't know how to start these essays, we feel stuck." The optimal choice is to start by mastering a good formula: it's easy, it saves time, and it helps students solve problems in their lives.

???RT = Question for SR1, Question for SR2, Question for SR3, "Recently" + Topic, Thesis - that's it.

Here's a video to teach this - watch it if you feel unsure about how to do this.


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