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- What is the significance of your findings?
- What are the implications of your conclusions for this topic and for the broader field?
- Are their any limitations to your approach?
- Are there any other factors of relevance that impact upon the topic but fell outside the scope of the essay?
- Are their any suggestions you can make in terms of future research?
- Reference to essay question
- Reiteration of thesis point
- Overview of main arguments
- Concluding comment and reference to essay question
- Answer the question "So What?"Show your readers why this paper was important. Show them that your paper was meaningful and useful.
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- Synthesize, don't summarize
- Don't simply repeat things that were in your paper. They have read it. Show them how the points you made and the support and examples you used were not random, but fit together.
- Redirect your readers
- Give your reader something to think about, perhaps a way to use your paper in the "real" world. If your introduction went from general to specific, make your conclusion go from specific to general. Think globally.
- Give your reader something to think about, perhaps a way to use your paper in the "real" world. If your introduction went from general to specific, make your conclusion go from specific to general. Think globally.
- Create a new meaning
- You don't have to give new information to create a new meaning. By demonstrating how your ideas work together, you can create a new picture. Often the sum of the paper is worth more than its parts.