Draft Your
ConclusionExplain the Implications of your Thesis or Research
You may want to explain the implications of your thesis
or the findings from research in your conclusion. Often this kind
of conclusion will also provide a summary but also allows the writer
to explain what the thesis or findings mean in a particular situation.
Let’s look at a conclusion from a paper about the themes of
community and oppression in revolutionary times.
Ultimately, the theme of community intertwines with the theme of
oppression. In order to free a people of oppression they must be united
in a community. Today, these themes, introduced to America in revolutionary
times, are still important. Americans come together in communities
to fight against oppressions that still plague us in America today;
Americans, especially minority Americans, still search for equality
in all aspects of life (from equality in education to equal opportunity
in housing). And beyond fighting oppression in our own country, Americans
have attempted to fight the oppression of people elsewhere in the
world. We still fight to make a reality the Enlightenment idea that
all human beings are born with "natural rights."
This strategy can be useful if your goal is to persuade your readers
to think or act in a certain way but may also be useful in showing
your readers relationships between the past and the present or future.
In the example conclusion above, we can see that this writer wants
to make a link between the “past” (the revolutionary themes
of community and oppression) and the “present” (these
themes still resonate in today’s world).
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