Imperialism
It depends really, if you are writing about anything from the past than start your essay with hi-stoical Context for the pay, as to when it was set and when it was written.
If it is anything else like a story than start by something that would grab the audiences attention, relevant to your age group.
If it is a poetry essay than start by telling which two poems u are going to compare and then just get into explaining them, depending on ur question might sound bonkers but you need to write the essay first. The introduction is like an advert for what comes later so you need to work out what you're going to say first. It's intended to lure people in and want them to read the rest of the essay. There's no hard and fast rules but my introductions go something like this:
1. A simple sentence saying what the essay is about
2. A basic breakdown - the main points
3. What things might disagree with your main argument The post has just arrived and in it a very nice surprise, the discovery that Jacques Seguela, one-time adviser to President Mitterrand, now close confidant of President and Madame Sarkozy (indeed he intoduced them), and something of a legend in French political communications, has dedicated his latest book to little old moi.
With apologies for the missing accents here and in the French bits of the long posting which follows – the dedication to ‘Le Pouvoir dans la Peau‘ (Power in the skin) reads ‘A Alastair Campbell, mon spin doctor prefere’ (three missing accents in one word – mes excuses sinceres).
So what did I do for this honour, you are asking? Well, perhaps the fact that he asked me to read his book, and write a ‘postface’ assessment both of his writing and of the issues he covers, and the fact that I said yes, has something to do with it. He says some blushmakingly kind things in his ‘preface to the postface’, which I will have to leave to French readers of the whole thing (published by Plon). But for the largely Anglophone visitors of
If it is anything else like a story than start by something that would grab the audiences attention, relevant to your age group.
If it is a poetry essay than start by telling which two poems u are going to compare and then just get into explaining them, depending on ur question might sound bonkers but you need to write the essay first. The introduction is like an advert for what comes later so you need to work out what you're going to say first. It's intended to lure people in and want them to read the rest of the essay. There's no hard and fast rules but my introductions go something like this:
1. A simple sentence saying what the essay is about
2. A basic breakdown - the main points
3. What things might disagree with your main argument The post has just arrived and in it a very nice surprise, the discovery that Jacques Seguela, one-time adviser to President Mitterrand, now close confidant of President and Madame Sarkozy (indeed he intoduced them), and something of a legend in French political communications, has dedicated his latest book to little old moi.
With apologies for the missing accents here and in the French bits of the long posting which follows – the dedication to ‘Le Pouvoir dans la Peau‘ (Power in the skin) reads ‘A Alastair Campbell, mon spin doctor prefere’ (three missing accents in one word – mes excuses sinceres).
So what did I do for this honour, you are asking? Well, perhaps the fact that he asked me to read his book, and write a ‘postface’ assessment both of his writing and of the issues he covers, and the fact that I said yes, has something to do with it. He says some blushmakingly kind things in his ‘preface to the postface’, which I will have to leave to French readers of the whole thing (published by Plon). But for the largely Anglophone visitors of