thlog week 3

The third week only has one class, and in this class we worked very hard on our writing projects, which is very painstaking but fun. The first examined part of our essay is the introduction. Someone said she cannot start writing from the introduction. Very interesting. I always start writing the introduction then body paragraphs, but at the end struggle with the conclusion.  Anyway, writing the conclusion is very different from the introduction, and hopefully we will learn it in the future days. Go back to how to write an introduction. During the stage of peer review, I read some interesting and distinct introductions from other classmates. Someone starts with a hook, just like me, which I think it is the most traditional way to introduce your thesis. Someone just starts with her own mental struggle about choosing which genre to write about. Also, someone starts without any decorations or rhetoric and writes straight about his thesis. Reading these different introductions inspiring me with more ideas about how to write an inviting introduction. In addition to the styles of introduction, I also realized that a good introduction should answer two questions, as mentioned in our reading, “who care” and “so what”. The most common way to address “who care” is to talk to the intended audience. For instance, one of my group member’s topic is sports journal, and he wrote in his introduction that sports journal is the best way for sports fans to follow big events in sports. I think it is what my introduction lacks. ”so what”ness is often embodied by refuting other people’s opinion, in the examples of our reading. But I don’t think it is a very efficient way because we can hardly find a well-known opposite argument to counter every time we write our thesis. Rather than using contradiction, I would emphasis on the importance of thesis itself. In my article, I said knowing how an economic news article is structured will help people read it faster and more productively. I think it is a better way.