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Conclusions By Worth Weller What does a conclusion do? The conclusion indicates that a full discussion has taken place and that this is going to be the obvious stopping point of the essay. How do you do this? If your essay has a thesis, the conclusion is the place where you restate it, often it a slightly more complex fashion, and very briefly reiterate the consequence and importance of it. Very often this has a philosophical note to it. For example (From an essay advocating the death penalty: It is hard to imagine anything worse than being murdered while neighbors do nothing. But something worse exists. When those same neighbors shrink back from justly punishing the murderer, the victim dies twice. Another example From an essay about the “dangers” of the Internet: Internet technology must be at the service of humanity and of or inalienable rights. It must respect the prerogatives of a civil society, among which is the protection of children. From Your Textbook If we are to prevent the expansion of policies such as these, moving us further along the multilingual path, we need to make a strong statement that our political leaders will understand. We must let them know that we do not choose to reside in a “Tower of Babel.” Making English our nation’s official language by law will send the proper signal to newcomers about the importance of learning English and provide the necessary guidance to legislators to preserve our traditional policy of a common language. Key words: Many conclusions have keywords in them that tell the reader outright he or she is at the end of the essay. From Your Textbook So the next time you see a story about how women hate their jobs and want to go home, or how women with good jobs are miserable wrecks, or how some brain or body part makes women unfit to be chief executive officers, take it with a grain of salt. You may not be hearing the cool, “objective” voice of journalism, but the old, endlessly replaying tapes of myth. From Your