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TSI Writing: Identifying the Best Opening Sentence for an Essay 15 Views
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Which of the following would make the best introductory sentence for the passage?
Transcript
- 00:03
Okay see writing shmoop uppers We've got a whole new
- 00:06
section here is on coherence organization and word choice of
- 00:10
the evil three here So as with all these questions
- 00:13
let's get to the answer first and then we'll go
- 00:15
back and you're quick skin it's critical to understand how
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- 00:18
to properly dispose of and recycle electronic kiosks available Mp
- 00:22
three players boy that's written a long time ago and
- 00:26
flights of ban if you agree to sell the crackling
- 00:29
seventy percent devices Second like probably in context which of
- 00:34
the following would make the best introductory sentence for the
- 00:37
passage So that is good because all we have to
- 00:40
really skim is the first part of it here Okay
- 00:47
so let's think about this Well we want to get
- 00:50
hooked Not like a marlin or trout but is a
- 00:53
reader right We need something snazzy Something that's going to
- 00:56
catch our attention right from the start Like hello She
- 00:59
lied Yeah something something like that Sometimes the best lead
- 01:03
in is something that appeals to our everyday lives Excuse
- 01:08
us while we fish those old remote control's out of
- 01:10
the trash Those we look through the list here Well
- 01:14
c is the only one that's really kind of grabby
- 01:16
there's A common misperception is okay to put electronic devices
- 01:20
and batteries in the trash like you just killed eight
- 01:23
thousand goldfish downstream or something like that So that's probably
- 01:27
only catchy ones that actually works so let's go through
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the loser bowl here just to be sure A good
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old question Well sometimes do it for us but well
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we don't want to be insulted before we start to
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read right So you were baking a there Yeah like
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yell Otis Mom what you doing there We also like
- 01:43
statistics but only if they don't tell us The whole
- 01:45
point of the essay is really not an actual problem
- 01:48
for most people yeah like don't jump out of airplanes
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It's dangerous Yeah i don't do that anyway so thanks
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for the warning The transition word is great to get
- 01:58
our tension but we don't want to place the conclusion
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in the introduction right D would be good at the
- 02:03
very end maybe yeah okay so that's it it's say
- 02:06
we're smoked and we're gonna go do some recycling of 00:02:10.086 --> [endTime] jokes
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