How to Write an Effective Essay: The Introduction

hi James ringing vid I'm having a hard time reading this paper because a lot of the articles just don't interest me and that's a problem because this is a paper they make money because people want to read what they have to say now you are probably not writing for a newspaper or magazine but I bet you're in school writing essays or you wouldn't be looking at this particular video which is about well what is it it is the ultimate intro whoa whoa whoa okay the ultimate intro to what to writing essays a lot of you are studying for TOEFL IELTS or TOEIC or you just want to write and you want to write well in English well this lesson what we're going to do is we're going to specialize on the introduction I did another lesson one of the five point or the five-part essay if you go back and look it's up up on Ingvild right now and it showed you know the fact that the parts of the essay and generally went over it but then I thought you know what and I actually had a student thank you from Canada Toronto walk up to me one night said you do English lesson on essay know it yeah more so okay here we are so what I want to do is I want to help you write the ultimate intro and it give you the basics so you can do something they'll make well there are four reasons for a good intro number one if you do a good intro your whole essay will be easier to write and I'll show you why in a second or two because the introduction is like a seed you know when you have an apple the little brown thing you take the little seed drop it in the ground a tree grows okay if you do the right introduction it'll grow the best tree make it simple for you okay another thing is with a good introduction it helps you by giving the details but you want to give to the reader right there so they know if they want to read it or not okay it also makes it easier for the reader to understand and follow right so we've got number one easier for you to write number two easier for the oh sorry it makes it better for the reader to follow number three it gives you order of your argument right you can say I'm going to say this I'm going to talk about this this and this so they know what's going on okay and number four it gives the details you know the stories about one two three four they understand so why don't we get to instead of just talking about it you notice I have something weird on the board today Ezekiel is also confused he's going what is this it looks like a diagram for a Star Trek the engine room right top to here of the fallopian tubes did I say fallopian tubes they don't have perspectives that would be another lesson but what we set out is the outline and what I want you to do is if you what you want to do is before you write an essay you want to write out this outline every time I'm going to go through and give you the particular parts and then you can fill it in all right so why don't we start off the beginning up here is what we call a grabber okay the grabber and you're going to say what is a grabber well let's not grab her don't get a girl and grab her you'll go to jail what you want to do is catch someone's attention if you remember rightly I said I'm not really interested in what was in the paper and I wasn't and it's simply because they didn't grab my intention to grab means to catch and hold they didn't catch it and hold it now a good grabber I wrote this here but what a good grabber will do with will make you read it and look at it at first and then make you want to go deeper well how do we get a good grabber well there are five basic ways we usually talk about five finger method right now number one is this and on why did the chicken cross the road come on you want to know right okay to go to Kentucky Fried Chicken and see his relatives you like right you like it's horrible it's horrible but it's a joke sometimes you can actually start off an essay with a joke a little bit of a joke it makes people go that's funny and then I'm going to say why did you tell me this joke I grabbed you I got you now you're curious about what else I have to say even if it's not the best joke okay now sometimes we want to be a little bit more serious because we are obviously still studying at higher Institutes of learning all right and if you're doing that then you might want to go a little bit higher you might want to put down the old Provo Meo proverb you know a bird in the hand oops right that's proffered I preferred something else when I didn't write it all right proverb all right and you know a proverb is basically something that's been written a long time ago everybody kind of knows it we don't know who said it a bird in the hand is better than two in the bush George Bush I'm not talking about you okay you know that everybody knows these things I mean that one is in several languages people literally have told me we've that's it we have it in my language who made it we don't know but then sometimes you wanna get a little bit more you know poignant or you want to get a little bit more serious so you want to use a quote one of my favorite quotes is by a guy named Winston Churchill a Prime Minister of England and one day I wear my England shirt with my name on it look out for that lesson okay anyway he said I am always ready to learn however I am NOT always prepared to be taught and that's where I kind of get my philosophy for teaching as well right like people always want to learn they never say I don't want to learn English they just might not like your style of teaching so you have to adapt right so you might have a quote which I just gave you the next is this because that sometimes a little bit what we call frou-frou well snobby you might want to bring it a little bit more down-to-earth and you want to make might want to use your own anecdote a little story from your life you know so you're talking about the essay you go you know in my life you know maybe I came from a small town up in New Haven making this up it's a story right and everybody was poor but the one thing we had was soul we cared right and then you might turn around and say in your essay you know it's this caring that makes you manatee work it doesn't matter what we have oh my god that's so deep okay so that an anecdote can do that now there's a couple other things because if you're doing well maybe as I said you might not be in school maybe you're doing business and there are a couple other things that would work well for you well one is a surprising fact oh I should have shouldn't have told you yet did you know one in two people are female yeah of course you did that's not a surprising fact but you get the drift when I say you get the drift you get the general idea which basically means you tell people something that they may not have known completely surprises them like a diet cola will rot your brain and give you brain cancer I'm sure you're like all right now all right you're like oh my god no one told me this yeah it's possible okay so surprising fact and if that doesn't work this one always works I guarantee it you know how I can guarantee it okay how about this how would you like to make a million dollars in the next ten minutes all right okay now English server is crashing because you're older how I make the money how I make the money and this is when we use we use your curiosity I'm gonna ask you a question you start with a question people I need to know I want to know the answer this question these are your grabbers so sorry it took so long to get into it but this is an important thing because if you don't have my attention you've got nothing so I might waste three minutes of your time now explaining it but understand without these things at the beginning of your paper nobody wants to read it and worse your teacher who has to read it doesn't want to read it you don't want them to start off negatively you want them totally interested and captivated captivate me like capture hold on to their health okay now that's your grabber and now you have the five grabbers that we can possibly use okay so that's five of them so what's the next part now you've got a grabber I might say to you what the hell are you talking about what do you want to tell me you got my attention I'm curious what are you talking about this is where we come up with topic your topic is your subject okay so here hey this is the attention we want your attention attention Kmart shoppers okay but now we want to know the subject what are you to talk about money sex drugs rock and roll Ezequiel don't think yes there are things about Ezekiel you don't know okay now topic is good but let's just say something like I came up to you and said I am the richest man in Canada Galen Weston okay I am the richest man in Canada you're going to say James prove it how do I know you were the richest man in Canada hmm well for this I'm gonna have to give you reasons if I don't have reasons for saying what I'm going to say why would you believe me you're going to say I don't think so so I need to give you reasons now to keep it simple I'm going to say let's talk about three reasons you could have 10 reasons you could have two you want to have more than one okay when I talked about the five paragraph essay I talked about introduction the body and I said three main reasons and then I said conclusion so we're going to stick with that formula okay so let's say we have three reasons they can be any reasons you want but they should be related back to the topic I say this because of that okay right another thing we can say that would be main ideas all right they're going to end up being your main ideas when I'm there will be a second part to this which will be based on the body and we're gonna take these reasons and make them the main ideas in the body okay cool all right let's keep going so you know there's got to be another part to this yeah all right so we have our reasons here and we list them one two three right number one number two number three okay now here's the cool thing now notice I put one two and three reasons these are the first things that come to my mind but really when I put the word order over here you can make up the order what is stronger because when we have an essay what we want to do is start from the weakest idea and go to the strongest building right you start with a dollar you had to you had three you get more and more you don't start with ten and go to one that's weak right we want more so here when we put order you might put one two three here but you might say okay actually this should go first this should go second and this should go third so you can organize remember I talked about the order you can organize your thoughts before you write the paper because it's harder to get rid of words right then when we start with a skeleton because remember this will be like one to three words I'm going to demonstrate quite quickly at the end how we would do a very quick intro all right now finally now you've got your grabber in your topic and you've got your reasons for it you've told me what you to talk about you got my attention but you haven't told me what you're arguing why are you talking about this why is this important to me this comes down to low and most important and yet fundamental parts of writing in English the thesis there we go the thesis comes look lost but sometimes it's first the reason why or what I want you to believe what I want you to understand what I want you to change your mind to okay now if you're doing saying you're selling something is the reason why you should buy my product okay my product is a car this is what's good about it but ultimately this is why it's the best and why it's the best now thesis to write a thesis can be most difficult can be or we can make it simple and one of the easiest ways to do it is well if you've got a topic do you like it or don't you like it positive or negative do I support it am i against it once you figure that out it's not that hard to write a thesis because the next stage we're going to go to is w5w v is who what where when why and okay that's what that tiny thing that you're not supposed to see because it's not really a W but you know how are you is a question right it's an information question we need to draw information what we're going to do here is we start with a topic and we started doing the W fives like why is it important who is affected by it when was it invented where would you find it this kind of thing we start with a question it gives us a question about the subject itself now what we can do from that once we've decided we want to be positive or negative and we have aw5 we flip this get rid of it literally when we do questions in English we have how are you and then we can flip it around and say okay good idea what were you what do you like we get rid of it we flip it around go I like this right so we flip a question into a statement first by taking the verb in the subject and flipping them and you can say boom boom boom good example well I like fighting right who is affected by fighting right we might say who is affected by fighting you're strong statement everyone because the answer will predict your strong statement so when we go from the question we get an answer and we make that the strong statement so who is affected by fighting everyone strong statement everyone is affected by fighting therefore because I hate it it must be ended Wow easy steps hook a topic boom boom boom we get a thesis right now of course it's going to take a little longer but I'm going to take a second or two to go through an example one for you right now because when I give you this introduction it should take you five ten minutes to come up with one of course you're gonna have to fill it out with sentences but you should get the basic essence down very quickly but of course you're good students and you've studied it right so let's take a look okay you know this one is a grabber you know this is topic and you know this is your argument right okay so what you want to argue I should say your argument what you want to argue so let's do a grabber all is fair in love and war subject fighting hmm fighting now we've got our grabber you got my attention all of us ferric Lee what are you talking about love or what now I'm telling you the subjects about fighting they're going to say well what what about fighting power hurt okay when you fight you get powerful fighting when you fight people get hurt okay people get hurt when you fight and let's say solution okay you're okay James so far you've written this but it's not helping me I go I'm not finished this is my argument because now we're going to do the thesis remember we can go positive or negative so of course most of you thinking fighting is bad right and it's about power hurting people and solutions I'm telling you fighting is good I decided I'm going to go positive what you're crazy I am you haven't figured this out haha too late fighting is I'm going to say fighting well before I even get there cuz I can say fighting is good w 5 w 5 w 5 w 5 I'm going to now find some reason to come in here and make it positive how can fighting help us how when does fighting do the most damage or when does fighting do the best in the relationship who is the best fighter see these are W 5 so I said I want to be positive so now I'm gonna do this w 5 thing I'm gonna go okay okay okay okay okay okay fight fighting is the only way to heal the world what now he's gone crazy that worm is in his brain no hear me out I'm going to show you how this essay works I know it's crazy it's a mess but you're gonna hear me out okay I'm going I've done my W 5 I think positive I went how I use the how I said strong statement how strong look the only the best thing to do in a thesis is use superlative strong language no maybe know if or might be strong hard okay so I said the only way of course you either agree or disagree and this is what's necessary with a thesis and if you look I've outlined everything but now I quickly will go over it so you can see my ideas for my essay all is fair in love and war to add to opposites we would say right and then I said fighting and look at the subject I put power hurt a solution well fighting is about power we could say fighting is about personal power and we get power from ourselves to know who we are when we fight for what we believe in ha didn't see that did you okay boom I got my I got it okay so I got my grabber and I'm gonna come down to this part later gotta slow down gonna calm down and exciting I went to that fight see I want to fight okay so that's the first thing personal power we only discover who we are by fighting for what we believe hurt yes people do get hurt but it's only when you do get hurt from fighting do you understand what you are losing and what is necessary to you hurts we just use fighting for hurt and we use pain to show it's good because that makes you want to step up because when you do get hurt it makes you want to do more to protect yourself and the things you love and solution only when you have fought for something and got a solution will you protect that solution oh yeah not so crazy because I'm sure you like interesting that's the power of a good argument when one knows how to argue correctly one can take something that seems crazy and make it completely logical fighting is the only way to heal the world through each person gaining their own personal power learning that what hurts them is what they need to protect and fighting solutions that we fought for it and fighting to keep these solutions can we heal the problems of the world you can't walk away from your responsibilities didn't see that did you all from this now of course we'd make sentences the final part of this whole thing is related if you notice I carefully made sure this was related to this was related to this you cannot just write up abstract things things that they're just ideas would have no connection we have to relate them so we want to make sure the gravel is related to the thesis which is related to the topic the reasons go back here ok and the order as you notice I did it this way we could have done it anyway once you've done that you can do your checkmark and you are now prepared to write well we've done the ultimate intro you're ready for the ultimate body I'll give you the first step because now we're going to take the reasons and they're going to be the headline for the main reasons in the body see you finish this which is basically a mini essay because the conclusion is just the flip side of this a good start well as my Chinese friends would say every good journey starts with the first good step this is your first good step with a mini essay written in it as you can see the body is here which will go into the body of the essay and your conclusion is right here thank you for spending time with myself and mr. e okay he is no longer surprised he's smiling like you have learned garage Papa and I hope you have to please come by for the second part okay when we do the body and go back to check the first lesson that we have on essays is an overview will give you an idea of where this comes from and how it fits in the total structure all right have a great day see you you know what maybe I'll find something to read in here maybe they saw the video see I forgot my traditional ending it's been a while now you've got an intro to this please cuz you don't even know where to go I was crazy you grabbed your attention right got into a good subject got a thesis across and didn't even show you where to go to finish it off you need to go to w-w-w as the grabber right dot eng' as in english' vid' as in video' right which is the topic or the subject plus the reasons and then calm if you don't conclude it you'll get there all right hey see works for everything see you later

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Length: 21min 22sec (1282 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 11 2011