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whys:

--- Quote from: jeydanaazli on June 18, 2020, 10:05:52 pm ---Thank you so much, whys! I really appreciate the detailed feedback! I've just gone over this with my teacher and I've been repeatedly told to not introduce any new information in my conclusion. Do examiners push for info in conclusions? Have your teachers mentioned conclusions in a different way? Thanks again!

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Hey! The conclusion is a structural requirement of any essay, but at my school, they always emphasise that if your conclusion is redundant (i.e. a paraphrased repetition of the introduction), you're better off not including it at all. For the conclusion, I've been told that you can definitely analyse in the conclusion for argument analysis, because it's not like text response where you cannot introduce new information. A great way to end is to analyse the ending of the article - this is especially effective if the ending of the article is powerful and has some good analysis, and end with a general consensus on how the audience is expected to feel/react for that particular section, as well as the article as a whole. Of course, you don't have to do this. You can always go for something more conventional, such as stating the general effect on the audience/reader and the writer's purpose and the general ways that they go about doing this (this is different to just signposting your body paragraphs again). If your teacher underscores the importance of NOT analysing in the conclusion, then definitely go with this, since they are the ones marking your essays. But, it's probably good to know for the exam the different ways you can construct a conclusion depending on which structure would benefit the essay you've written so far. I don't think examiners 'push' for info as such, I can just imagine them being bored from reading a hundred essays with conclusions that are just a repetition of the introduction. When they come to your essay, they'll be relieved that finally, they can read something with a bit of zest ;D. There is of course a line between writing something that is risky and safe - you definitely want to stick to the safe side, and there is no specification that I am aware of that states that you cannot analyse in the conclusion of an argument analysis. You don't have to - you can score perfectly fine with other methods, but it might come in handy when the article ends with an all-encompassing, powerful statement that you could save for the conclusion to end with a bang.

blueycan:
That helps a lot, thank you for the clarification. I'll use different methods in my practice essays and see how it goes, for now I feel like staying on the safer side is better but I'll 100% keep everything you mentioned in mind.  ;D

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