with a lead in or hook statement. Hook statements can be statistics, definitions, questions,
or anything related to your topic that you use to grab your reader’s attention.
An example of a hook for this paper:
One of Dictionary.com’s definitions of identity is “the condition of being oneself or itself, and
not another,” though for some people our identity can be a murky concept or idea because it is
so vague.
This hook has a definition, and some tension already. As a reader, I want to read on—as a
writer…
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