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Introducing a persuasive idea or action requires that you capture a reader’s interest. Your introduction becomes your hook. There are several ways to introduce a persuasive paper, but we’ll just look at the three most common and most useful. A Startling Statistic Nothing works quite so well to catch someone’s interest than a simply amazing statistic. For instance, in the environmental essay, the fact that each one of us creates four pounds of garbage each and every day is enough to grab anyone’s attention. Follow that statistic with the statement that the United States has an urgent need to control waste. | Introductions Introducing a persuasive idea or action requires that you capture a reader s interest. Your introduction becomes your hook. There are several ways to introduce a persuasive paper but we ll just look at the three most common and most useful. A Startling Statistic Nothing works quite so well to catch someone s interest than a simply amazing statistic. For instance in the environmental essay the fact that each one of us creates four pounds of garbage each and every day is enough to grab anyone s attention. Follow that statistic with the statement that the United States has an urgent need to control waste and your audience is led in exactly the direction you want them to go to read and accept your proposal. Now if the startling statistic is put into the words of an authority as a direct quote it gains even more impact. For example if we say According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency each and every day each and every American produces four pounds of garbage that must be disposed of. we have added authority to our statistic. A Statement of Urgency Nothing speaks better than an authority. You can grab your audience by directly quoting or paraphrasing the Surgeon General of the United States or the Secretary of the Interior. For example The United States Environmental Protection Agency the people responsible for the air we breathe and the water we drink say that unless we begin to reduce the amount of garbage we send to the landfill the methane gas being released into the air everyday will eventually create biohazardous conditions for us all. Quoting the EPA gives a serious tone to your introduction and it alerts your reader that you have very important information to share which may affect their future actions. A Direct Question Sometimes called a rhetorical question because you really do not expect an answer the direct question invites your reader to proceed with you to discover the answer. It is your promise that if the reader goes .