Put the most important thing in the first sentence
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1 年I agree. It’s the same thing I tell our KIDS FIRST reporters. Tell us in the first paragraph how much you liked it and why. people are inundated with information, and they may not read beyond your first paragraph. So catch them from the get-go.
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1 年Very true!