Providing a Sense of Closure
Good conclusions often offer a new understanding, but that new understanding is very closely related to the the-
sis. The conclusion is not the time to introduce a new topic. Don’t bring up assertions that have not already been
supported by the body of your essay. Doing so will not only frustrate your reader, but will probably cause him or
her to lose sight of your thesis. In the following examples, one conclusion provides closure while offering a new
understanding, while the other one goes off on a tangent unrelated to the original thesis.
I don’t blame my brother for how I turned out, of course. He may have given me the nickname, but I’m the one who let that
nickname determine how I felt about myself. I could have worn the name proudly—after all, Disney’s Dumbo is a hero.
Instead, I wore it like a dunce cap. I wish I had known then what I know now: You are what you believe yourself to be.
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