Class 14.1

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Homework: Essay Intros

Read the intros from each of two essays that I wrote in recent years: Flash | Black Panther.

Key moves that these essay intros have in common:

  • Orient reader:
    • by reference to something familiar
    • by reference to an engaging anecdote
  • Puzzle to be pondered in the essay that follows
  • Ref to prior scholarship (this can also happen as a lead-in to the puzzle)
  • Thesis claim asserted in the face of a prior understanding

Choose ONE of these two introductions and annotate it to identify where it:

  1. orients the reader (highlight in green)
  2. presents a puzzle to be pondered or a question to be answered (pink)
  3. references prior scholarship (yellow)
  4. asserts its thesis claim (blue)

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