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Essay writing guide: Conclusions
Your conclusion should reflect on what you have established in your discussion without simply repeating your point of view. It should give the essay a sense of completeness by bringing the discussion to some resolution, reacquainting your reader with the central themes and referring back to your overall point of view on the topic set.
The conclusion is your last word on the topic, and potentially it has great impact.
finish off in your own words rather than with a long quotation (do you really want your response to be ended by someone else's words?).
sum up the entire essay (don't limit your conclusion to one or two points and not the whole essay).
think about what you have found/concluded and relate it back to the field in which you are writing.
Remember you are writing something to conclude your essay. What might you do ?
reacquaint your reader with your response, perhaps remind them of your main points (in some sense summarising, but being selective).
draw out the implications or significance or relevance or interest etc. of your response in relation to the field. Read your response and ask 'So what?'. Whatever you reply might be useful in your conclusion. This does not mean adding something new to your argument, but using your argument to say something (maybe tentatively) about the wider context (field) of the topic.
You may find it useful to think of a conclusion as being constructed according to 3 'moves':
Move 1 Review your line of argument
What judgement can you make about the findings?
Move 2 Draw out implications/consequences
What are the implications or consequences of the findings? How should your reader now
be thinking differently about the topic?
Move 3 Point to directions for future research
What logically needs to be done next and in what ways?
(NOTE: The above principles may not easily apply to disciplines such as Literature and Philisophy)
In this way your essay conveys to your reader... "You gave me an issue /problem/question to consider... here is my response to that issue/problem/question and my response is significant etc. because...", although you wouldn't word it this way!
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