Here is a list of ways to start your paragraphs:
Just click and read. Most people just have a couple of tricks up their sleeve and they fall back on them all the time. If you use these you will have a vast number of ways of attacking your question, of putting your thoughts out therefor a wider public.
Please don't use them all at once. Treat them like alcohol - one G&T is nice. Ten different cocktails is different…
Please don't use them all at once. Treat them like alcohol - one G&T is nice. Ten different cocktails is different…
- President Trump/Karl Marx/Heinrich Himmler would agree with all of that. But it would be much more civilized to…
- I think this is really a bit sexist/ racist/ Islamophobic/ unacceptable (etc) myself. Here's why...
- Everyone does it. Come on! It is quite normal to…
- How out of date all this is! We need to move on a bit. And here's how...
- How would you like it if someone did that to you? There are victims here...
- Let's just define what we are talking about...
- Actually the facts don't support this argument. The most recent figures are these...
- I think there are three separate things going on here. The first is...
- Everyone knows that stealing is wrong/ hitting women is wrong/ people should be treated fairly (etc). This means…
- I believe that Shakespeare/Confucius/Winston Churchill (or pick your own: Madonna? ) once said...
- This is a very complicated subject. Let's just break it up into its separate parts shall we. First...
- OK. So if we do this, what will be the probable result?...
- True or false? Helpful or dangerous? Which one are we talking about? Let's look at the alternatives...
- (Pick a celebrity who holds opposite views to your own.)Well he/she would say that! Let's take a sneaky peak into their lives, shall we? Let us, for example, take a look at...
- Fair's fair! The same rules should apply across the board. So is this a fair discussion? I don't think so...
- OK. So something is not quite right. Who is to blame?...
- People should support... And here's why...
- A funny thing about this topic is... (Pick something unusual).
- Everyone thinks that... Actually this is not the case at all. Here's why...
- Oh yes! (Name a public celebrity who is on the other side of the argument.) That is rich coming from her/him! (Now put the boot in).
- Let's not play the blame game. There is nothing wrong in...
- It would have been better, looking back, if...
- I think that... is rather like marmite/spaghetti/minestrone (or something completely ridiculous like a...) ...
- It would have been a mistake if we had...
- Think of a nickname for a famous personality who is interested in what you are discussing. Now talk about their views using the nickname.
- Post hoc, propter hoc: just because things happen after other things, that does not imply cause.
Please notice that you can click on each suggestion for a fuller explanation of the idea. I would like to thank the great Aristotle for inspiring this idea in his Rhetoric. He was the personal teacher and coach, of course, of Alexander the Great.
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