icepixie | Mar. 10th, 2009

Mar. 10th, 2009

I am currently trying to write the worst possible research essay opening as part of an exercise for my students on how to write good introductions. (Never fear; I will also be showing them examples of good intros and teaching them the conventions of good research paper introductions.) The course topic is heroes, so I'm trying to write something that would fit into that. So far, I have:

Since the dawn of time, people have looked to heroes for examples of how to act. Sometimes these heroes are fictional. These fictional heroes can be found in comic books and movies, such as Batman or Superman. Everyone looks up to these figures because they save lives and defeat evil.

Bad enough?

Thankfully, that is worse than anything I've ever had to grade, but presumably the exaggeration will get the point across.

Now I need to find some good essay intros. Anyone have any favorites? I'd like to just take intros from some of the journal articles I'm reading for my Joyce paper, but I don't want to completely befuddle the kiddies.

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This particular plague I have is taking a while to move on out. Booo. I bought a nice, big box of tissues last week--probably 200 or so in the box--and since Friday I have used two-thirds of it. Rhinovirus, you have officially outstayed your welcome.

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