Revised Conclusion

In this blog post, I will be revising and rewriting my conclusion. In order to do this, I will be picking one of the approaches listed and explained on page 56 of Student's Guide. 

Daikrieg el Jevi. "So what?" 08/29/2006 via Flickr.
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My new conclusion seeks to answer the "so-what" question. I struggled with transferring my original ideas into less of a summary, but I am happy with my result. I explicitly talked about the article and the genre as a whole, which also offering some important examples of what to look for when writing a rhetorical analysis. I tried to look to the future too, reflecting on how the author did that himself in his article. My new conclusion is shorter in length than my original, but it means so much more!

My old conclusion was very bland and boring. I have this terrible habit of thinking of a conclusion as a summary, that repeats my thesis and points, using a different choice of words. That is not necessarily what a conclusion is, and I am learning this now. Sure, it is well-written and it sounds nice, but now, as I am re-reading it, it does not mean much of anything. I am not answering the "so-what" question, which was my original purpose and goal of writing my conclusion.

--Jenny Bello