Yaolee Chen

English 101

My Best Introduction

Glenn Simshaw

Introduction

A good introduction gives the audiences a general background of the article, a focus picture, a controversial viewpoint of that picture, and the significance of the article. In short, the audiences know what the body paragraphs are going to say after they finish reading the introduction.

I have gotten an unqualified introduction from the computer, which 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>

From the introduction, the readers have a general ideal that the article is about President Richard Nixon in the Oval Office. The picture is focus on the eve before he left the White House. The significance of the article was that Nixon was the first president in the US history who was resigned. But the article did not provide a valuable disagreement with most of the audiences, like the whole story is an episode that Nixon actually had no idea about the break-in, and the Congress had purposely set a snare to trap him.

The introduction does not qualify for a research paper because the introduction do not provided a controversial view to debate. But I like the introduction, thought. It tells the readers who, where, what, when, how the resignation is made. Yet, I’d better not to write an introduction without a valuable disagreement to debate over with.