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Even the best essays can go wrong in the conclusion—this video covers what not to do in a conclusion to help avoid any essay-ending problems. The tips in this video help sort out what should go in a conclusion (and what might be better in a body paragraph) and will help any essay from going down like the Hindenburg.
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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak What not to do in a
- 00:05
conclusion eyelash shmoop lou you just finished an essay It's
- 00:10
good really good You don't even have to fudge the
- 00:14
margins or line spacing kind of good This kind of
- 00:17
essay is the hindenburg it's a smooth ride but how
Full Transcript
- 00:20
are you gonna land this thing Oh harder harder Here
- 00:25
are a few things you should absolutely not do to
- 00:27
keep your essay from crashing and burning at the last
- 00:30
second so don't simply restate your thesis Your paper should
- 00:34
have been a journey you should be re exploring your
- 00:38
thesis if you simply cut and pasted from your intro
- 00:41
your teacher is going to cut and paste you We're
- 00:43
not sure exactly what that means but it won't be
- 00:45
pleasant Don't try it Don't bring up anything new in
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the conclusion If you remember a hilarious louis ck routine
- 00:52
that would fit perfectly with your essay go back and
- 00:55
put it in your essay don't put it in the
- 00:57
conclusion all that's going to do is leave your reader
- 01:00
wanting more and in the wrong way in the my
- 01:03
roommate ate all but one of the cookies kind of
- 01:06
way it is also remember that you don't need to
- 01:09
come up with a definitive answer is just an essay
- 01:12
you're not trying to solve the world's problems If you
- 01:14
try to tell people exactly what to think tired mr
- 01:18
prez you're just going to make them that instead show
- 01:22
them what conclusion you came to but leave the door
- 01:25
open for them to argue with You don't end with
- 01:29
a quote from someone else Your reader has stuck with
- 01:31
your essay until the end They want to know what
- 01:34
you think not what some other dope has to say
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way say other dope We weren't implying that you're a
- 01:41
dope not on last You end up with a quote
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from someone else and you're totally a dope Finally transitions
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are great We love transitions almost as much love ice
- 01:50
cream sandwiches but as with ice cream sandwiches i don't
- 01:54
want to overdo it Your transition shouldn't be the tired
- 01:57
old in conclusion or similar make it snappy Here's a
- 02:02
quick recap of what not to do in your conclusion
- 02:05
don't restate your thesis Don't bring up anything new don't
- 02:09
come up with a definitive answer to life's problems don't
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end with a quote from someone else Don't use cliche
- 02:14
transitions In conclusion there are many things you should not
- 02:18
do to keep your essay from crashing and burning at
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the last second By working to decrease meat consumption and
- 02:24
redirecting corn production of countries in need of food world
- 02:27
hunger will be solved As dorothy parker said A little
- 02:31
bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika there
- 02:35
We've just written the worst conclusion ever You can at 00:02:39.05 --> [endTime] least do better than that
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