Mastering the Short Response Hook
The purpose of the hook is to guide the reader into the topic smoothly, while at the same time creating engagement and context.
The purpose of the hook is to guide the reader into the topic smoothly, while at the same time creating engagement and context.
Interpretation might also be thought of as commentary, insight analysis, opinion, personal reaction, explanation or evaluation. It is what makes the essay yours.
Research details are the proof, the evidence and the text in a text-based argument. They give the essayist something to talk about.
In a multiple-paragraph essay, a bridge can connect a paragraph to another paragraph or it can connect two, transitioning ideas within the same paragraph together.
Interpretation might also be thought of as commentary, insight, analysis, opinion, personal reaction, explanation, or evaluation. What’s most important is that interpretation comes from you.
The RD can be a statistic, a quote from a piece of literature or an important scientific fact. It can be the results found in a survey, an anecdote, a line from a poem or any other form of evidence.
Once you have completed all the parts that make up your body paragraph, it is important to inform your reader that you’re finished and ready to move on to the next section.
Presenting the opposing viewpoint actually strengthens your own argument because it shows you to be credible, fair-minded and unafraid.
You promised your reader that you would talk about certain ideas in a specific order in your thesis statement and in your POPs. In your body paragraphs you are making good on that promise.
In a multiple-paragraph essay, you only get one chance to grab your reader’s attention and prepare them for what you’re going to talk about in your paper, and the introduction is where this happens.