tailieunhanh - Essential guide to writing part 5

Tham khảo tài liệu 'essential guide to writing part 5', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | For more material and information please visit BEGINNING J J is the cryptic beginning that is a mysterious or not quite clear statement. Charles Lamb opens an essay with I have no ear. We soon learn that he means no ear for music but for a moment we are startled. To be effective a cryptic opening must not simply be murky. It must combine clarity of statement with mystery of intent. We know what it says but we are puzzled about why. The mystery has to be cleared up rather quickly if the reader s interest is to be retained. For most of us curiosity does not linger without satisfaction it goes elsewhere. Carrying mystification a little further you may open with a rhetorical paradox a statement that appears to contradict reality as we know it. Hilaire Belloc begins his essay The Barbarians this way It is a pity true history is not taught in the schools. Readers who suppose true history is taught may be annoyed but they are likely to go on. Sometimes mystification takes the form of a non sequitur that is an apparently nonlogical sequence of ideas. An enterprising student began a theme I hate botany which is why I went to New York. The essay revealed a legitimate connection but the seeming illogic fulfilled its purpose of drawing in the reader. Amusing the Reader Aside from arousing their curiosity you may attract readers by amusing them. One strategy is to open with a witty remark often involving an allusion to a historical or literary For more material and information please visit 56 THE ESSAY figure. Francis Bacon opens his essay Of Truth with this famous sentence What is truth said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer. A contemporary writer alludes both to Pontius Pilate and to Bacon by adapting that beginning for the essay What Then Is Culture What is truth said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer. What is culture saidan enlightened man to me not long since and though he stayed for an answer he did not

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