You’ve written a compelling introduction, a fantastic thesis and well-crafted paragraphs in support of your claims. Now you just need to write a conclusion, so you throw together a couple of generic ...

A conclusion is the final idea left with the reader at the end of an essay. Without it, an essay would be unfinished and unfocused. A conclusion should link back to the essay question and briefly ...

If you're writing a white paper, issue brief, article, analysis, or report, what's the best way to conclude that document? In my work as a writing coach, I've seen many clients struggle with writing ...

Your essay may change significantly while you're developing it, and then the intro will be inappropriate. Struggling for a good intro is a sure step to developing writer's block. Ex: One has to wonder ...

‘…And they lived happily ever after,’ is a well-known kind of conclusion for most fictional pieces for children. As we advance in age, education, and career, we ...

Extended "discourse," such as class presentations or essays written as school assignments, has a particular structure arising from particular expectations and standards. Such structure, expectations, ...

Finals season always seems to arrive with a stack of essays that grows faster than my ability to write them.  Even as a ...

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Can you imagine reading a work of fiction that brilliantly introduces the ideas held in the novel only to realize when you got to the last page that the concluding chapter was identical to the opening ...