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Lecture 9 Paragraph completeness:beginning,middle,end. Comments on the assignment The beginning Most,if not all , essays are made up of a beginning, a middle and an end. The beginning (introduction )rouses the reader’s interest in and securs his attention to the subject matter of the essay or provodes necessary background information. The middle(body) gives a clear and logical presentation of the facts and ideas the writer intends to put forth. The end(conclusion) winds up the essay often with emphatic and forceful statement to influence the readers’ final impression of the essay and shows the implication or consequences of the argument. To the writer the beginning is often the hardest part of an essay,because he has to decide from what point to strt, and in what direction to go. There is no single way to begin all essays. The following may be some approaches (all the examples may be used as the first para. of an essay on Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941) Question 1. what is your possible beginning like ?How to start your essay? 1. A quotation Hegel, the German philosopher, says ,“We learn from history that men never learn anything from history. ”The wry remark has been confirmed time and again by historical events, one of which is Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union.He must have utterly forgotte or wilfully ignored the great disaster Napoleon upon himself by attacking Russia early in the nineteenth century. 2.Figures of statistics The attack on the Soviet Union was the largest and fiercest of all that Hitler had launched. He threw in 190 divisions,3000 tanks,over 5000 planes, and altogether5.5 million men. 3. A question or several question What made Hitler decide to leave Britain alone for the time being and turn east to attack the Soviet Union? What made so sure of a quick victory in the vast country where Napoleon had lost all his troops? 4.The time and place of the event to be described On the morning of June 22,1941,alon