Often, students are not expected to write a fully developed introductory paragraph in their first drafts of an essay. In these drafts, students should be honing in on their basic point and fine-tuning ...

In the most abstract sense, the function of an introductory paragraph is to move the reader from the world of daily life into the textual and analytical space of an essay. In a more concrete sense, an ...

Ask each student to write analyses (written separately ... Reconvene as a group and discuss some of the changes students plan to make to their introductory paragraphs based on the feedback they just ...