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Introductions Which came first? Introducing Your Thesis How can you introduce your main idea to the reader? ? Introduction suggestions:You can… Attract readers interest Supply any background info reader may require Present thesis statement- clear, direct statement of the main idea. Plan of development Introducing Your Thesis Begin with a broad general statement, then narrow into your thesis. Bookstore shelves today are crammed with dozens of different diet books. The American public seems willing to try any sort of diet, especially the ones promising instant, miraculous results. Diet book authors are more than willing to invent new fad diets to cash in on this craze. Unfortunately some of these fad diets are ineffective or even unsafe. One of the worst fad diets is the “Palm Beach” plan. It is impractical, does not achieve the results it claims and is a sure route to poor nutrition. Methods of introducing your thesis Start with an idea that is opposite of the one you will develop. When I decided to return to school at age thirty five, I wasn’t at all worried about my ability to do the work. After all, I was a grown woman who had raised a family, not a confused teenager fresh out of high school. When I started classes, I realized those “confused teenagers” sitting around me were in much better shape for college than I was. They still had all their classroom skills in bright, shiny condition, while mine had grown rusty from disuse. I had to learn how to locate information, how to write a report, and how to speak up in class discussions. Methods of introducing your thesis Explain the importance of your topic to the reader. Diseases like the scarlet fever and whooping cough used to kill more young children than any other cause. Today, however, child mortality due to disease has been almost completely eliminated by medical science. Instead car accidents are the number one killer of our children. Most of the children fatally injured in c