Writing tune up hooks

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Writing Tune Up Hooks
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• Let me tell you a secret.
• Exceptional writers not only avail professional
  editing services but also revise their work
  constantly. Nowadays, employers seek more than
  core job skills. They want superlative writers.
• To become one, you must understand the difference
  between revising and editing. Simply put, editing
  is more about correcting. Editors will fix your
  grammar, references, and formatting, tighten up
  your language, and note gaps in your argument or
  missing details. What they cannot do is attend to
  larger structural issues (though they may offer
  suggestions). This is revising. Editors cannot
  write hooks or topic sentences for you or narrow
  your thesiss focus. They cannot add supporting
  details.

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• Lets begin with introductory paragraphs.
  Introductory paragraphs introduce your topic,
  grab the readers interest, and offer a roadmap
  (a thesisIll discuss this later) for your essay
  or article. You want to hook the reader while
  introducing your topic.
• You might argue, hooks are only for student
  writing. To disabuse you of this notion, I
  challenged myself. I grabbed a magazine at random
  off my shelf (the January 2014 issue of
  Scientific American) and found therein examples
  of all five of the hook types I suggest below.
  Professionals always begin with a hook.

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• A quotation
• Begin with a quotation your reader would find
  interesting.
• In the 1800s English poet William Blake famously
  challenged his readers to see a world in a grain
  of sandFerris Jabr, Life under the Lens.
• A question Ask a question to get the reader
  thinking about your topic.
• How did youthful galaxies in the early universe
  fatten up to become the behemoths we see
  today?Ron Cowen, Drinking from the Cool Cosmic
  Stream.

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• A surprising statement or fact Shock your
  readers.
• When a meteor exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia,
  last February, the worlds space agencies found
  out along with the rest of us, on Twitter and
  YouTube.Clara Moskowitz, Put up the Earth
  Shield.
• An imaginary scenario Ask the reader to put him
  or herself in a scene or just describe a scene
  and let the reader witness it.

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• The researchers had to be wrong. Nothing travels
  faster than light. Imagine ourselves four
  centuries from now, in a future in which
  Einsteins ideas have been supplanted scientists
  have long ago experimentally confirmed that
  neutrinos really can travel faster than light.
  How would we then, looking back on physicists
  today, construe their reluctance to accept the
  evidence? Set in their ways? Unreceptive to new
  ideas?Dennis Danielson and Christopher Graney,
  The Case against Copernicus.

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• An anecdote Offer a short, interesting story
  related to your topic.
• The crucial insight came to me as I leisurely
  rode my bike home from work. It was Valentines
  Day 2008. While I cruised along, my mind mulled
  over a problem that had been preoccupying me and
  others in my field for more than a decade. Was
  there some way to simulate lifeincluding all the
  marvelous, mysterious, and maddeningly complex
  biochemistry that makes it workin
  software?Markus Covert, Simulating a Living
  Cell.

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