Instructional Video7:09
The Learning Depot

How to Write a Hook: 10 Ideas for Narrative, Expository, Persuasive/Argumentative Writing

12th - Higher Ed
A hook is a sentence or group of sentences that will capture or “hook” your reader’s interest and lure him or her to keep reading. The hook, also called the lead, will set the tone and mood for your essay and establish A hook can be a...
Instructional Video5:41
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Ashley Gong - National Student Poet

Higher Ed
Ashley Gong, age 15, of Sandy Hook, CT is a junior at Newtown High School. She grew up surrounded by language, as her parents, first generation immigrants, would often read Chinese poems to her when she was a toddler. Despite this early...