Conclusions

Conclusions

Conclusions

• Restate the thesis statement in a way that is not repetitive

  
  

• End with a clincher that explains why your essay matters, sometimes called the “so what”

Clinchers/"So What" statements can...

• Echo the introduction/hook 

• Challenge the reader to take action

• Look to the future

• Pose questions

• Create new meaning

• Synthesize information

• Offer solutions

Multiple Choice

"And on late-evening constitutionals along streets less traveled by, I employ what has proved to be an excellent tension-reducing measure: I whistle melodies from Beethoven and Vivaldi and the more popular classical composers. Even steely New Yorkers hunching toward nighttime destinations seem to relax, and occasionally they even join in the tune. Virtually everybody seems to sense that a mugger wouldn’t be warbling bright, sunny selections from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. It is my equivalent of the cowbell that hikers wear when they know they are in bear country." Brent Staples

• Look to the future

• Pose questions

• Echo the introduction

• Synthesize information

Multiple Choice

Both models are failing in opposite directions to suppress the violence. Too punitive towards gangs. Too indulgent of frats. What about a new model that discards incarceration and indulgence as solvents? What about the split screen becoming one screen? Ibram X Kendi

• pose question

• look to the future

• synthesize information

• all three

Multiple Choice

"If one’s life purpose is obscured by the pressure to conform to a generic type and other traces of self are ostracized into shadow, then just how difficult is it to pick up a gun, metaphoric or literal, as a means of self-definition, as a way of securing what feels like personal power?" Rebecca Walker

• offer solution

• pose question

• create new meaning

• synthesize information

Multiple Choice

"But that will take time, and Black women are not naïve. We know that after the last ballot is cast and the vote is tallied, we are likely to go back to fighting for ourselves. Because at least for now, that’s all we have." Megan Thee Stallion

• look to the future

• challenge the reader

• synthesize informattion

• all three

Multiple Choice

During my visit to San Juan, a performance artist assured me that U.F.O.s, if they ever land on the planet, would probably choose this island. He said it was unlikely that extraterrestrials would visit epicenters like Washington or other United States cities because they would get the executive order forbidding their entrance. In Puerto Rico, on the other hand, they will feel most welcome. They will also have a chance to appreciate the audacity of the population: “No hay money, time runs muy slow, but hey, la gente es super cool.” Llan Stavans

• pose question

• look to the future

• challenge the reader

• offer solution

Multiple Choice

"When historians pick up their pens to write the story of the 21st century, let them say that it was your generation who laid down the heavy burdens of hate at last and that peace finally triumphed over violence, aggression and war. So I say to you, walk with the wind, brothers and sisters, and let the spirit of peace and the power of everlasting love be your guide." John Lewis

• create new meaning

• synthesize information

• look to the future

• pose question

Multiple Choice

"But I believe in a different set of rights, the right to stand up and be heard, the right to reform a broken justice system and build a new future. We had the right to be silent. Now it’s our right to speak up. Do you understand these rights as I’ve read them to you?" Meek Mill

• pose question

• challenge the reader

• look to the future

• all three