5/6/2023 0 Comments Mic drop image![]() ![]() The biggest mistakes made by students are as follows: This is where the added value comes in – you demonstrate you both understand and explain WHY this is all so crucial. Why is what you’ve written important? Why is this your particular choice of key point? You want to demonstrate that you understand the content and how it links to the question. Now, we’ve got this ‘add value’ statement again. This is why it’s so important to include them, because if they’re absent it’s like asking someone a ‘knock knock’ joke and not bothering to give them the punch line. ![]() You can relate your key points and/or themes back to the title question and state the result of those points you’ve just made. So, conclusions provide the answer to the question, but of course they do other things too, and it’s not as simple as that.Ĭonclusions come after your discussion or analysis (the middle bit of your essay/assignment), which means they are the end result of your discussion. We don’t want this always write the exact title you’ve been given. If you just write something nondescript like ‘Psychology essay’, you’re hopelessly lost and have zero focus, which means your work could go horribly wrong. If you make up your own title, you can write an essay about the wrong thing and it’s entirely irrelevant how good your work is (because we only give you marks for the questions that we ask you to answer). If you don’t, you could end up off topic. This is one of the reasons we always want you to write the title at the top of your work. Link what you’ve discussed to the question.Here are the main functions of the conclusion: ![]() Google Images: Ĭonclusions are effectively tying your work up in a neat bow and presenting your main idea to the reader. Image of Boromir with the words ‘One does not simply forget to write a conclusion paragraph’. You don’t want to do that, so your conclusion or summary is where you share why you’ve just written everything in your essay/assignment. A conclusion or summary is an integral part of your essay/assignment and without it you’re leaving the reader hanging wondering ‘what was the point of what I just read?’. Or rather, we’re going to look at conclusions vs summaries, because you may get asked to write either.Īt a very basic level, conclusions show the reader the answer to the question you have been asked in the title summaries share the key points you’ve just discussed and relate them to the question. Following on from my post on your introductions, we’re now going to look at conclusions. ![]()
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