Yaolee Chen

English 101 Introduction (2^nd Revision)

Glenn Simshaw

The United State is marching, two steps forward and one step backward, toward war with Iraq. The Bush administration has articulated its reasons for war, but has produced no official estimates of the costs. Although cost estimates are often ignored when war is debated, most people recognize that the costs in dollars, and especially in blood, are acceptable only as long as they are low. If the estimates of American casualties mount to the thousands, if the costs to the economy are major tax increases or a deep recession, or if the United States becomes an attacks on civilian populations, then decision-makers in the White House and the Congress might not post so expeditiously to battle. (Nordhaus)

A good introduction includes “Background Information,” “Focus, Emphasis, Selection of Problem,” “Reference to Importance, Relevance,” “Thesis Statement.” The introduction above had showed these elements.

“The United State is marching, two steps forward and one step backward, toward war with Ira” is a broad and general idea that provides the background information of the war with Iraq. “The Bush administration has articulated its reasons for war, but has produced not official estimates of the costs”, now, focuses the topic on the economic. Then the author emphasizes the price of the war must be low. So the hyper thesis follows that the price of the war is low. His thesis is a counter argument of his hyper thesis that the war is costly, and that the costs to the economy are major tax increases, or a deep recession, or the US becomes an attack on civilian populations. So the White House and the Congress have better not to war.

Works Cited

Nordhaus, William D. Iraq: “The Economic Consequences of War”, The New York Review. December 5, 2002. from English 101 Ed. By Glenn Simshaw.