An Effective Introduction

Apparently, everything that I ever learned about setting up an introduction is wrong (that figures). The old way is boring and hard to follow, which is not hard to believe, because I thought my intros sucked.
The old way, also called the "funnel introduction", was starting with a broad generalization and then just narrowing it down to the topic. The better way of doing it has a complete different outlook on the information being used.
First, you start with old information that everyone already knows. Then, you add a new truth or something unknown about that information to surprise your readers and get them hooked. I never realized this, but it does make sense. When some article starts off with something that I am interested in and then completely changes my thinking process about it, I will probably read the rest of the article.
I don't think I've ever used this tactic' but its better late then never. My first paper to try and use it on is my summary/strong response essay. It sounds fun right? Well we will see how much this new style of introduction really changes papers.