Thurs. 3/11

• 50 word sentence: What must you know to survive in a world of rapid technological change?
• An introduction to introductions
• Create buy-in
• Locate problem the thesis purports to revise, solve, address, or complicate (general-->specific)
• Introduce an anecdote that complicates or introduces a larger problem (specific to general)
• Beware of beginning anything with statements so general they are commonsensical or mundane
• Typically in papers with a thesis statement, all parts of your introduction should build to the thesis
• Creating a map through rhetorical analysis.
• A rhetorical analysis doesn't necessarily ask: what is this part of the text saying? It asks: what is this part of the text doing?
• Jenkins
• Komito
• Two Class Examples 
• Short Genealogy of the Essay
• Final Course Calendar on Learn@UW