Yaolee Chen

English 101

My Best Introduction

Glenn Simshaw

Introduction

A good introduction is like an anchor in the oceans, it gives the readers a hook where you are going to start your speech. Accordingly, my best introduction shall give the readers a general idea in these matters of, where, who, what, why, how, and something related to the author’s position.

I have gotten a good introduction from the computer. And the article was about the resignation of Richard Nixon, which introduction was written:

In an evening televised address, President Richard M. Nixon announces his intention to become the first president in American history to resign. With impeachment proceedings underway against him for his involvement in the Watergate affair, Nixon was finally bowing to pressure from the public and Congress to leave the White House. "By taking this action," he said in a solemn address from the Oval Office, "I hope that I will have hastened the start of the process of healing which is so desperately needed in America.” <historychannel.com>

“In an evening televised address,” I as a reader felt I was sitting in a nice comfortable sofa with dimming yellow lights from a lamp by the TV right after my dinner in the evening. And then, I look at the screen on the TV and I asked, what the news is going to tell me. The introduction had set an anchor in the seas of my brain: first, it tells me who is the chief actor in the coming body paragraph--- “Richard M. Nixon”. And what is going to be happen---“his intention to become the first president in American history to resign”. And why was of his resignation---“the impeachment proceedings under way against him for his involvement in the Watergate affair”. And how he is going to do his resignation--- he is going to leave the White House. And the author’s position by quoting from Nixon’s conversation directly that “’By taking this action,’ he said in a solemn address from the Oval Office, ‘I hope that I will have hastened the start of the process of healing which is so desperately needed in America.’” So, the introduction has include--- where, who, what, why, how, and the significance of this article.

I like this introduction because it takes only 65 words to cover the whole idea of the article. As the introduction has set the landmark, the body paragraphs were the more supporting details and the more evidence under the direction of the introduction. Though it was an article of 650 words with over than a hundred supporting details and evidences, I did not get lost throughout the reading. And I found the article was interesting because I know what the author was talking about. So, the best introduction is an anchor in the oceans of my brain.