Draft Workshop 1 for February 16

In your wave, rewrite your introduction using the following instructions:

1. Begin with an interesting fact about your topic that your audience won’t already know. State this fact in a simple sentence (it should probably follow this pattern: subject / verb / indirect object / direct object) built around a simple (i.e. one word), active verb (i.e. no forms of “to be”).

2. Segue, as concisely as possible, into a simple and direct statement of your essay’s argument.

3. Give a brief indication of your paper’s trajectory or logical structure.

4. Throughout the paragraph avoid using “to be” verbs, prepositional phrases, and unnecessary adjectives and adverbs.