This is a YouTube video titled "Make the first and last sentences the most important" containing a monologue or instructional talk focused on writing techniques, specifically emphasizing the importance of structuring sentences to highlight key words and creating strong opening and closing sentences in a piece. The content appears to be a single speaker providing advice on writing style.
Make the first and last sentences the most important sentences in the piece and make the last word in the sentence the most important word in the sentence. So really small thing, but you'll recognize it immediately. For example, if I say you knew who the first president was, the last word in that sentence is was, and that is not the most important word in that sentence. So it doesn't end with emphasis. You can fix this by just changing the order of the words and saying you knew the name of the first president. President is the most important word in that sentence. So when you make the last word of the sentence the most important word, now it has emphasis. And so this is true both on a sentence level, but it's also true on a piece level. The very first sentence of your piece and the very last sentence of your piece should be the two, ideally the two strongest sentences in the piece, because you want to open with something very declarative and you want to end with something very declarative that creates that bookend feeling for the reader.
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