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Don't Start With A Definition

January 3rd 2008 19:54
Anybody who starts an essay/paper/article/whatever by defining a term, stop. Seriously. I'm not even joking. If I were to write this article by starting with a definition, it would go something like this:

"Incompetent is defined by Google.com as 'any person who, though not insane, is, by reason of old age, disease, weakness of mind, or any other cause, unable unassisted to properly meet requirements for a suited purpose.'"

Oh my gosh, look how bored you are already.

Start your paper off with something exciting. Something like "So there I was...I thought I was going to die..." See now that gets me interested. Now I want to know what happened. It can even go into some boring lame-o story about how you mis balanced your check book. You can make boring things exciting by spicing it up a bit. Like Emeril, BAM!


Also keep it short and sweet, like this.
It doesn't take four pages to get a point across.

BAM!
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Comment by Cibbuano

January 3rd 2008 22:54
It's a good tip... I wonder where that cliche came from? It's like, in courtroom dramas, the defending lawyer always uses Webster's to start his case..

Comment by Michaelie

January 3rd 2008 23:28
HAHA Isn't it annoying?! I feel like people who do that don't have a point to anchor themselves to, so they just use that hackneyed, and less than effective, technique. I remember people doing it at uni and I would cringe... I used to sometimes start my essays with a funny analogy or something, but never that, and never the same thing twice!

Michaelie

Comment by Damo

January 4th 2008 01:03
"So there I was...I thought I was going to die..."

So what happen after that?

Comment by Garrett Mickley

May 8th 2008 17:18

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