Did the blog title hook your attention? I hope so because today, in class, I talked about opening and closing paragraphs of a paper and I hit the intro aspect pretty hard. The main thing I talked about was getting the reader's attention. For my example I used personal ads from a newspaper. I put two side-by-side and had the students pick which one got their interest the most. Was it the one whose first line was "SWM, 56, 6'9", 159lbs, w/mustache..." or was it the one that said "IF SHALLOW LUST IS WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR ANSWER THE AD ABOVE,..." They, of course, picked the "lust" one and then I had them pretend everyone in the world is single so they could write the ad for anyone. Obama got an ad written about him, as did Will Smith, some cougar-ish 68 year old woman looking for an 18-35 year old to help her spend her money, and some guy who's "hook" is the title of this blog. I can honestly say when the student shared his hook I gaffawed a huge laugh.
It was a good day in class.
3 comments:
hahahaha! Oh my gosh! I am so happy I found your blog! What a brilliant idea. I miss you Patty, and I can tell your students up there are going to miss you too!
Great idea!! I just might have to steal it from you :)
You're more than welcome. I'd be happy to email you any of the handouts I've created. Just let me know what your email is and I'll zing 'em your direction!
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