Types of Introductions

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Types of Introductions

• Inviting your audience to listen

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Introduction is Important!

• Audiences first impression of you
• Helps them decide if they should listen
• Gets the audience interested (hopefully!)

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Eight kinds of Introductions

• Questions
• General to Specific
• Definition
• Examples
• Quotation
• Shocking Statement
• Fact
• Anecdote or Story

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Questions

• Open ended questions
• Not a Yes/No answer
• Example
• 1. Why do people argue?
• 2.

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General to Specific

• Begin with a general idea
• Lead from there to a specific idea which is your
  topic
• Pets are wonderful to have around the house.
  There are many kinds of pets, such as fish,
  snakes, hamsters, birds, cats and dogs. The
  Siamese cat is a very special pet and Ill
  explain why.

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Definition

• Use the dictionary definition of your topic.
• Ex Fear is defined by Webster's Dictionary as
  Fear was a motivating factor for the main
  character in the book The Long Walk.

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Examples

• Use examples to show the main idea of the speech.
  
• Ex Love comes to people in many ways. Love can
  be the emotion we feel when we care about a pet.
  It can also be the feelings we have about our
  siblings, parents, and other relatives. Finally,
  it could be a romantic relationship between a man
  and a woman. Shakespeare examines love in his
  play The Two Gentlemen of Verona in the
  characters of Valentine and Sylvia.

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Quotation

• get the reader thinking about the main concept of
  the paper.
• Ex How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
  I love thee from the depth and breadth of my
  heart (Browning). People can love others in
  many ways, but in the play The Two Gentlemen of
  Verona Shakespeare examines love in the
  characters of Valentine and Sylvia. 

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Shocking Statement

• Get the readers attention by stating something
  exciting.
• Ex I was sure Id arrived on a different planet.
  Just because I had a new hairdo, everyone treated
  me like they had never seen me before. They
  scattered every which way to avoid me, when just
  the day before, my friends crowded around. I
  didnt care. I loved my new hairdo.

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Fact

• Research a fact having to do with your topic.
• ExThere are 1143 different types of poisonous
  spiders in Wisconsin. Most people lump all of
  them into the same fearsome category. Yet,
  despite their similarities, these creatures
  differ in the harm they can do. The black widows
  venom is deadly, but the tarantulas is only
  about as poisonous as a bee sting.

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Anecdote or Incident

• Recount an incident, from your own life or
  someone elses, that relates to the subject you
  will be discussing.
• What a day! My new school locker kept jamming, my
  math class was really advanced, and people kept
  mispronouncing my last name. It was certainly
  different from my old school, but Goldberg Middle
  School had similarities that eventually made me
  feel right at home.