Your introduction should be designed to attract the reader’s attention and give him/her an idea of the essay focus.
Within the space of a few lines, you should introduce the subject of your essay, in addition to your contention. The reader should know just from the introduction what your point of view is, and where the essay will be heading.
To introduce the subject for a text response essay, you should mention the title of the text in addition to the author. It should be effortlessly integrated into a sentence, for example: “George Orwell’s Animal Farm, which is based on the Russian Revolution, is about the rise of a ruthless and brutal dictator.”
The title of the novel should be used in italics, underlined or single quotation marks. Only one of these is necessary. You should also refer to the author by their full name the first time you introduce them, and by their surname only for every additional time you mention them, for example: “In Animal Farm, Orwell explores the idea that power corrupts.”