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Description:
Effective paragraph beginnings. You need them to grab an otherwise-oh-so-bored audience. The best ones align with the theme of the essay and creates vivid imagery. Like the excited cabin of a rocket ship - where you can't sleep.
Transcript
- 00:03
Okay a city writing slippers Nine of eleven here right
- 00:07
Private You don't think i'm not as plans even if
- 00:12
it's to be smooth but didn't like smooth Easily Finally
- 00:15
after two and a half disease only time to go
- 00:18
Which choice begins the paragraph most effectively Are you got
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- 00:23
a few choices here They were back in the eagle
- 00:27
Well let's See what does that mean They're back in
- 00:30
the eagle right there Last paragraph after kind of beefs
- 00:33
dio and finally sleep Not only was the tiny cabin
- 00:37
noisy with thompson bright with warning lines that couldn't be
- 00:40
done but also was glowing with intense sunshine outside along
- 00:43
they was done But the eagle was no more rest
- 00:45
ful trying to our chris berman nfl voice there Well
- 00:49
let's See they were back in the eagle What does
- 00:51
that mean Is that gives us anything it's Kind of
- 00:53
like dull Well the previous paragraph ends with the idea
- 00:57
of sleep So a good opening sentence of this paragraph
- 00:59
would be one that references sleep in a particular place
- 01:03
namely the eagle got it So it see the eagle
- 01:07
was not a sleepy place right That's the right answer
- 01:10
There that's a way better control as is the paragraph
- 01:13
opens with a fact that was already stated in the
- 01:15
previous paragraph like notice how in all of these redundancy
- 01:19
or repeating yourself are saying the same thing over and
- 01:21
over and over and over again is really frowned upon
- 01:24
so we're done in st not good not smooth We
- 01:27
learned later in the paragraph that the eagle was distinctly
- 01:29
uncomfortable so opening with a statement about its comfort is
- 01:33
misleading because it ain't While the mission was indeed a
- 01:35
success the paragraph is not about the success of the
- 01:38
mission so an introductory sentence about a successful mission is
- 01:41
a kind of off tone here a little bit out
- 01:43
of step that's it the eeg ola was not a
- 01:46
sleepy place It was just a spacey place you know 00:01:50.004 --> [endTime] like kevin
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