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Concluding Essays: Effective Strategies to Leave an Impact

Learn how to effectively wrap up your essays by reinforcing your points, addressing the "so what?" and "who cares?" questions, and using strategies like vivid images, quotations, and calls for action.

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Concluding Essays: Effective Strategies to Leave an Impact

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  1. Conclusions How to effectively wrap up our essays

  2. What is a conclusion? • Your conclusion paragraph should wrap things up and leave your reader with something to think about. • Remind your reader of your thesis, but DO NOT SIMPLY RESTATE YOUR THESIS. • Reinforce your point and help the reader understand why your topic matters in the grand scheme of things. • Your conclusion should answer the questions SO WHAT? and WHO CARES? AND have IMPACT!

  3. Effective strategies to conclude an essay • Conclude with a vivid image: “I imagine your bright yellow felt pen effortlessly poised in your hand…” • Conclude with a quotation: HelenKeller maintained an optimistic attitude towards life. “I believe that all through these dark and silent years God has been using my life for a purpose I do not know,” she said, “But one day I shall understand and then I will be satisfied.” • Conclude with a call for action: “Join me in this effort. We can safeguard the human race and civilization if we so choose. There is no more important or urgent issue.”

  4. Sample conclusion paragraph • Prompt: This past month a disproportionate number of headlines have revolved around anthrax. Is our fear of anthrax fact based or media created? • Franklin Roosevelt said it best when he said we have nothing to fear except fear itself. Where is the headline that reads 285 million people in the United Sates don’t have anthrax and 668 million pieces of mail get delivered safely every day? The media is feeding us fear dressed in the costume of “the news.” Just as our government has an obligation to protect our freedom, the media has a responsibility to report morally. When it doesn’t, we the consumers need to differentiate between fact and media manipulation. • What strategy does this writer use to conclude their essay?

  5. How to answer the Question “who cares?” • Answering “WHO CARES?” is important because it establishes the contrast between what others say and what you say. • 1. _____ used to think ______, but recently _____ suggests that _________. • 2. These ideas might challenge ________’s common assertion that ___________. • 3. At first glance ________ might say ________, but on closer inspection ________.

  6. How to answer the question “so what?” • Answering the “SO WHAT?” is important because it demonstrates why other people should care about your claims. • Ultimately, what is most important here is ___________. • The conclusions/ideas will have significant impact in ________ as well as in _______. • These findings/ideas have significance for __________.

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