One way to make your essay more cohesive, together, from the intro to the conclusion is to come back ideas and examples you've already explored in the essay. For today, we want to think about how we can bring the hook of our essay back as we look to conclude our essay's points.
Hook Inspiring Conclusion's Topic Sentence
- Start your final paragraph with an introductory/transitional phrase that includes an explicit reference to your very first sentences--the hook.
- (When Rules for Writers and other writing textbooks say "borrow key words," this is one of many ways you can do so.)
- After the introductory phrase, "restate" your thesis statement. However, don't just paste the same sentence in here. Work on different ways of expressing the same idea you had on your subject (your mnemonic device).
- In your head and on the page, keep thinking: what is my main point, what did I write are my points?
Our Essay Model
- Hook: The famous Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov once said, "“Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.” Since he is known for Lolita, a novel about a creepy old man obsessed with a little girl, a reader may be shocked to find that Nabokov thought structure was more important than the idea itself [Hook].
- Thesis: PRE teaches writers to pay attention to both the three general pieces of content that should show up in each body paragraph and how to order that information.
Conclusions Topic Sentence Created from both:
Even if I'm only writing an essay and not a great, thousand-page Russian novel like Nabokov, creating structure for one's ideas allows those ideas to be more effectively understood and developed. An organizational device like PRE allows a writer to provide direction for how to understand even the craziest ideas. [Then go on in the paragraph to reiterate your main points in the body paragraphs, and even give some final thoughts on the examples used in them. Your goal is to have a well-developed conclusion, too, of 5-8 sentences.]
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