How to Write an Awesome Personal Essay Introduction

Hook your reader with the opening to your personal essay

Melissa Miles McCarter
The Writing Cooperative
8 min readNov 5, 2019

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Introductions are hard. They can make or break a personal essay. Even though it’s just one element, the intro serves many essential purposes.

Called the hook, the introduction grabs the reader and draws them in. When you write an effective beginning to your…

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