City University of New York
Write Site: Engage Your Reader
Learn about different hooks to use when writing a good introduction including: telling a story, providing interesting background information, setting up a contrast, and using a combination of approaches.
Other
Guide to Writing a Basic Essay: Write the Introduction
How to create a memorable introduction. This good advice can be applied to writing essays, speeches, anecdotes, and more.
The Write Place
Literacy Education Online: Top Down Introduction Model
This site which is provided for by the St. Cloud State University explains the top-down, or inverted pyramid, model of an introduction and lists facts about introductions.
University of Victoria (Canada)
The U Vic Writer's Guide: Writing Essays: Introductions
This site provides a brief overview of introductions, exploring what they are supposed to mean for an essay in writing.
University of Victoria (Canada)
The U Vic Writer's Guide: Writing Essays: Structure of an Introduction
A general overview of what goes into the introduction of an essay. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.2
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Revising an Introduction: Lesson 2
This lesson discusses improve an introduction through revision. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Revising an Introduction."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Introductions: Lesson 4
This lesson introduces introductions. It is 4 of 5 in the series titled "Introductions."
TES Global
Blendspace: 2016, Term 1, Week 4 Writing Sizzling Starts
A six-part learning module with links to images, videos, and websites about using sizzling starts to grab the reader's attention at the beginning of a writing piece.
Other
Cleveland State University: Introductions & Conclusions
Briefly explains how the introduction and the conclusion work together. Then gives bulleted lists dealing with the introduction and conclusion separately. The conclusion list explains how to make a conclusion go beyond a mere summary...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing Skills: Introduction to Effective Introductions and Conclusions
This article provides an introduction to identifying strategies for writing effective introductions and conclusions. Click next on the bottom right to continue.
BBC
Bbc Bitesize: Introducing a Discursive Essay
As part of a revision and writing section of BBC Bitesize, this site goes over several tips relating to writing the introduction of a discursive essay. Five separate methods are described, including provocative, balanced, illustration,...