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You’re right-it might be interesting to share and read what others consider their favorite first lines or lead in paragraphs from a short story.

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Bachmann (R-Minn.) goes on to cut and paste a full seven paragraphs from the GOP talking points.

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The key facts reported appear in paragraphs four and five (after a back-in lead humanizing the statistics):

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The function of your first paragraphs is to be a bridge for the reader from your headline to your main content.

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It results in paragraphs constructed in the following manner:

I want to reach my hand into the dark, and feel what reaches back. greygirlbeast 2009

I found the immediate proximity of these two paragraphs from the Times piece a helpful exercise in Post V2 cause-and-effect mathematics:

"I just don’t think Sonia would fit in with Roberts, exactly, and certainly not Scalia." 2009

Take special (oops, I said I wouldn't use that word anymore, didn't I?) note of the language in paragraphs 2 (written by CNN) and 4 (a quote from Palin's own spokesperson).

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So I typed a couple of paragraphs from the novel into my computer and ran the Word spelling and grammar checker, which gives you the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Statistics at the bottom.

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Lewis: Unfortunately, I don't have time to give you a proper, nuanced response, so will point you, for the moment, to two paragraphs from the Catechism of the Catholic Church:

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So I typed a couple of paragraphs from the novel into my computer and ran the Word spelling and grammar checker, which gives you the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Statistics at the bottom.

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