HW for 4/6: Essay 3 Introductions

Working on Introductions:

• Save to USB/e-mail, and bring to class. Bring a printed version to hand in (for credit for attendance for Wednesday's class).

• WORK TO MAKE YOUR INTRODUCTION ABOUT HALF A PAGE AT MOST...(which is hard to tell when handwriting, but important to consider as you transport this in-class draft to a computer screen!!!).

1. What is your hook? Try to limit yourself to two-ish sentences that connect to the main cause/effect point from article and your own subject.

2. Name your **** article. Name the author. Describe what the article is about. Again, try to do so in two-ish sentences.

• Introduce a key term or two, if helpful.

3. Name your original culture/relationship that you bring to the writing table. Borrow language from your description of the article's subject culture/relationship to describe this other culture

• Use a transitional phrase (or sentence) to bridge ideas of article to this new culture/relationship.
• Use terminology from the article to contextualize your culture/relationship

4. Make at least two claims (subtopics that refer to body paragraphs) about how the main conclusions within your article can be used to understand something (you define more clearly) about your original culture/example.

5.  The thesis: what is the biggest idea from the article that helps you (and your reader) see the connection between texts?

• Use a DEP clause that helps coordinate or subordinate the article's main idea about its subject culture/relationship.