How do I write a hook

							                    How do I write a hook?

There are 5 main strategies to writing a good hook. Pick one of the
5 for your first sentence (or maybe 2 or 3 sentences), then move on
to how the hook relates to your essay.

Use a statistic – If you‟re writing an essay about HIV education in
schools, your hook could be “While HIV has always been considered
an adult problem, %30 of new HIV infections are found in teenagers.
This rise in infections for teenagers means that schools need to…”

Use a quote – If writing about baseball, your hook could be “Yogi
Berra once said „Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is
physical.‟ While his math was a little off, Yogi was right about…”

Use an anecdote (personal story) – If writing about hunting laws in
Maine, your hook could be “The morning air was cold, and my
breath made clouds of steam that I could see through the scope of
my rifle. Beyond the breath, a flash of movement caught my eye. I
moved the scope to follow it and was rewarded with the sight of
antlers in the crosshairs. That day, at the age of 13, I shot my first
deer. want to change the age of…”

Use a generalization – If writing about the theme of “you get what
you deserve,” your hook could be “Many people believe that fate
controls our lives, and that everything we do is already planned out
for us. While fate certainly has a hand in what happens to us in
life, we make our own decisions. Therefore, we should take
responsibility…”

Use a fact – If writing about technology, your hook could be “There
are over 164 million computers in the United States alone.
Computers are at the forefront of technology, and it is this use of
computers that…”