Hi, for my grade 12 english class I need to write an essay about myself (which happens to be my least favourite subject). I already have the first paragraph, but it's not really an introduction about myself. I want to introduce myself in the second paragraph but I don't want to say something simple like "Hi, my name is ________", or "I was born on _________". I want to have a unique way of introducing myself but I can't think of anything. Help :(
Well, this website is mainly geared towards helping people improve their already completed essay. I don't think we can help you write your own essay, especially since it's about yourself. We don't know you past your username and the essay you provide, and thus, only you can come up with a unique introduction for yourself.
Furthermore, what do you have for your first paragraph if your second paragraph serves as an introduction? Why don't you show me your first paragraph so I have an idea of where you're coming from?
As for coming up with a unique way of introducing yourself. Well, have you ever read other people's essays that talk about themselves? How did they introduce themselves? Were there are any that caught your attention? If so, how did they do it? Perhaps you could emulate that technique.
For example, something that would catch my eyes would be explaining a really interesting setting that you were born or grew up under. For example, "I was born and raised in the slums of Detroit, where crime was so rampant that my family would constantly volunteer one after another to stay up for the night to be on the lookout for any dangerous activities near our home."
This isn't perfect since I only came up with this on the spot for the sake of showing you an example, but it grabbed my attention and hopefully yours, too, because it described a situation that is really not common to an average person. The readers after reading that would want to know what happened afterwards. You captivated them just by mentioning a key detail about a situation that many people do not normally experience. Do you have a really unique situation that only very few people went through that would grab someone's attention?
