Blog 11A
Katie Smith
English 1010
Professor Marchant
9 November 2015
       An introduction is the first paragraph in an essay that introduces what your paper is going to be about. It outlines key points that will be discussed throughout your essay. The main purpose of the introduction is to introduce the ideas that you will expand later on in your body paragraphs. Your introduction should also contain a thesis that should either present information or persuade the audience to do something, or think a certain way about something.

      In the process of writing an introduction the writer must first come up with a good hook. A hook is the first two sentences in which a writer must present information that grabs the readers attention, and makes them want to continue reading the rest of the essay. The next part of the introduction is introducing the topic, and discussing why it is an important matter, why it is interesting and what the boundaries are. Following introducing the topic is the main points that will be in your body paragraphs. Why they come in that order, and how they connect with the subject of your essay. Last is the thesis statement. This part of the essay is only one sentence and encompasses what your paper is going to be on,