WEBVTT 00:00.750 --> 00:01.650 Hello again. 00:01.680 --> 00:04.120 And let's keep this train rolling. 00:04.140 --> 00:08.460 We're now going to move into the introductions part of doing an essay. 00:08.620 --> 00:14.690 The introduction is the first paragraph that you're going to write when it comes to doing an essay. 00:14.700 --> 00:22.800 All right so let's go ahead and look at how you do an introduction under time conditions because that's 00:22.800 --> 00:23.870 what we're talking about. 00:23.880 --> 00:29.640 We're talking about writing writing an essay under time conditions you might do an introduction different 00:30.090 --> 00:36.930 if you're doing for example a research paper or a scientific paper where you have days months to be 00:36.930 --> 00:37.590 able to write. 00:37.860 --> 00:41.810 But here we're talking about what do you have to do. 00:41.820 --> 00:44.940 What kind of introduction you have to do under time conditions 00:52.050 --> 00:55.160 so let's go ahead and have a look at the basics 00:57.720 --> 01:05.460 was an introduction well in introduction basically lets the reader know what your essay is about. 01:05.520 --> 01:10.650 It gives you the context and the frame for which you're going to discuss and answer the essay question 01:11.500 --> 01:12.540 right. 01:12.570 --> 01:18.040 The reader gets their very first impression about you from the introduction. 01:18.090 --> 01:22.460 So a great introduction is extremely important. 01:22.500 --> 01:28.070 This is the first impression you're going to make on the reader on the greater. 01:28.080 --> 01:37.140 So if you do a very bad introduction that really is putting a bad impression in the mind of the greater 01:38.100 --> 01:41.730 because all graders are human they're human. 01:41.870 --> 01:48.500 And so your introduction needs to be done correctly is extremely important did your introduction is 01:48.500 --> 01:50.600 done according to standard. 01:51.050 --> 01:54.870 You have to let readers know what the central issue is. 01:55.040 --> 02:00.750 You have to let them know what's the question problem or controversy that you're going to address. 02:00.890 --> 02:07.190 And you have to let them know the blueprint the roadmap for how you're going to address or answer that 02:07.190 --> 02:12.940 problem or controversy that's what's necessary when it comes time to doing an introduction. 02:14.240 --> 02:15.220 Right. 02:15.360 --> 02:21.910 In general introductions have these three parts right. 02:21.930 --> 02:26.520 They start with some general background information that introduces the topic. 02:26.520 --> 02:30.980 Then you have an overview of the essential essay question. 02:31.050 --> 02:39.330 Finally you have your controlling thesis statement the thesis statement must respond to the question 02:40.110 --> 02:43.580 the thesis statement must answer the question. 02:43.830 --> 02:51.570 The thesis statement is the most important sentence in the entire essay I must say it again the thesis 02:51.570 --> 02:55.620 statement is the most important sentence in the entire essay. 02:55.650 --> 03:02.640 That's why when I look at essays and I see students do bad thesis statements I say you know what this 03:02.640 --> 03:12.770 is about to be a bad essay and ninety nine times out of ten it's a bad essay because there's no direction 03:13.010 --> 03:15.560 without a proper thesis statement there's no direction 03:18.150 --> 03:23.340 so if you want to go ahead and stop the tape right here stop the recording right here. 03:23.340 --> 03:27.920 This is a introduction that explains what an introduction is. 03:28.530 --> 03:32.850 So if you want to go ahead and stop the recording right here and take a read and this explains to you 03:33.630 --> 03:39.600 in a note this explains to we in another way what an introduction is or what you should be looking at 03:39.600 --> 03:41.230 when it comes time to an introduction. 03:41.480 --> 03:42.630 OK. 03:42.930 --> 03:46.530 Sometimes people understand things in different types of ways. 03:46.860 --> 03:51.900 So sometimes it will if as seems like to you that I'm repeating something many times what I'm doing 03:51.900 --> 03:56.820 is I'm trying to say it in a different way because sometimes people understand things differently and 03:56.820 --> 04:00.270 I might need to say something two or three different types of ways. 04:00.450 --> 04:06.870 And then finally sometime it's finally the person will say Oh I get it now OK. 04:07.410 --> 04:14.580 The introduction tells you how you understand the topic what your controlling argument is what issues 04:14.580 --> 04:19.420 you will cover and what conclusion you will reach right now. 04:19.440 --> 04:23.960 This is not different than what I said earlier it's just another way of saying it. 04:27.130 --> 04:28.930 Not included in an introduction. 04:28.930 --> 04:31.690 There is no explanation of arguments. 04:31.810 --> 04:36.890 You do not make arguments in an introduction All right. 04:38.580 --> 04:42.930 And also you if you can't so you can't do that right. 04:44.190 --> 04:50.370 You can't explain your arguments and you must address the question in your introduction you can't fail 04:50.370 --> 04:51.120 to do that 04:54.500 --> 04:59.010 so here are the important parts of the introduction again in a different way. 04:59.210 --> 05:07.970 You have to have the general idea what is the general subject of the essay the specific part what is 05:07.970 --> 05:10.060 the controversy regarding this subject. 05:10.160 --> 05:12.540 In essence paraphrased the question. 05:12.650 --> 05:20.390 And finally the thesis statement was your position and blueprint or road map general specific thesis 05:20.390 --> 05:20.900 statement. 05:21.860 --> 05:30.410 So basically an introduction is three to four sentences three to four sentences most it a three to four. 05:31.280 --> 05:36.350 That's because sometimes it depends on the thesis statement a thesis statement can be a combination 05:36.350 --> 05:39.350 of two sentences or a be in just one sentence. 05:39.660 --> 05:40.080 OK. 05:41.500 --> 05:50.310 But General Idea one sentence specific controversy one sentence thesis statement can be also one sentence 05:50.820 --> 05:53.970 possibly two. 05:54.330 --> 05:57.640 Here's the introduction format right. 05:57.640 --> 06:06.980 There it is again at the top there general specific thesis here are the elements again general specific 06:06.980 --> 06:10.470 pieces you're like well why does it keep repeating that to me why. 06:10.700 --> 06:17.000 Because is that it that's something I need you to remember I need you to have it in your mind when you 06:17.000 --> 06:18.980 do an introduction. 06:19.070 --> 06:23.060 Do I have the general specific and the correct thesis statement.