Remember, the beginning of your essay serves to get your reader into the meat of the essay, but it's the sizzle and not the meat of the essay itself, so keep it short.
When the time comes to begin their essay, many writers forget that there's no rule that says that you have to write the beginning of the essay first.
This is especially important for the very beginning of your essay, where otherwise minor errors can reflect negatively upon your the entire work, so be sure to give your essay's beginning a thorough revision.
The beginning of the essay came easily.
When he applied to the graduate program in economics at Harvard, where he studied from 1975 to 1979, the beginning of his essay read, "Many children are taught to believe in God.
Still, I do think escape is possible, to which end I can now revisit — and elaborate on, but just a little — the simple principles of healthy eating I proposed at the beginning of this essay, several thousand words ago.
When the actors walk through the aisles at a performance of "Godspell," don't most people feel like shooting them?... Toward the end of June, four novelists will each submit the first paragraph or so of a story to an MSN site, four social commentators will submit the beginning of an essay, and four artists will submit a sketch.
Those who allow the film to happen to them in the ways discussed at the beginning of this essay are much more likely to enjoy it, although they would probably be just as hard-pressed to describe what happens in it as the more literal and didactic members of the audience would.
But another part is surely being treated like an adult, of entering a rough-hewn colleagueship by being trusted to put work into deciphering statements like the one at the beginning of this essay, or to deal with straight talk of the nature of science and the universe.
Near the beginning of his essay he asked: "Why should we expect corporations to chart a sound long-term course of economic growth, if the so-called investors who determine the fate of their managers do not themselves act or think with the long term in mind?" The academic literature provides a mixed and inconclusive assessment of the true effect of activism on shareholder value over the long-term.
It shows that the harsh assessment of Chinese philosophy quoted at the beginning of this essay over-simplifies several complex questions.
