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Friday, May 25, 2012

Writing a Developed and Detailed Conclusion

It is important to have a strong conclusion, since this is the last chance you have to make an impression on your reader. The goal of your conclusion is not to introduce any new ideas, but to sum up everything you have written. Specifically, your conclusion should accomplish three major goals:

  • Restate your thesis statement
  • Summarize body paragraphs of your essay
  • Leave the reader with an interesting final impression

No new information is presented in this paragraph. Instead, the writer sums up what has been written so far and leaves the reader with a last thought. While the content of the paragraph is very similar to the introduction, the paragraph itself is not exactly the same. This is important. Even though the goal of the conclusion is to restate a lot of the information from the introduction, it should sound different because the conclusion’s purpose is slightly different than the introduction.

Remember to restate your thesis, summarize your subpoints, and leave the reader with an interesting final impression.

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