How to Avoid a Bad Introduction
by Kathleen M. “It was a Dark and Stormy Night…” Edward Bulwer-Lytton wrote a novel that started with this phrase in 1830; now there is an annual contest to write an equally atrocious opening sentence each year. You are more likely to remember the phrase from Peanuts cartoons, as it was often the opening of a novel that Snoopy worked on. Writing a memorable opening for an essay is not
