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Draft Your
ConclusionMake a Statement about your Thesis
Another strategy to try is to make a statement about
your thesis. While this strategy also includes some summary of the
paper, you take that summary another step by making a statement about
that summary. To put it another way, in this strategy you will most
likely include a reaffirmation of your thesis, but, in addition to
that, you will make some kind of evaluative comment about your thesis.
Let’s look at an example.
Vacation starvation is affecting a large percentage of American workers.
Pushed by the modern-day stressors of completing 12 hours of work
in an 8-hour paid day and shuffling various home responsibilities,
all while carting the little Johnnies and Peggy Sues to gymnastics
practice, music lessons, and soccer games, the typical American worker
allows little time for uninterrupted rest and relaxation. The one-day
per month vacation day is often booked with family responsibilities
instead of the leisure and rejuvenation that a 10 day or more family
vacation would provide. Instead of being refreshed and renewed for
yet another week of 40 hour doldrums, most Americans can barely drag
themselves out of bed by the Monday 6 A.M. wake up call. The alarm
clock is ringing loud and clear, but no one is paying attention. Today,
most Americans are saving their relaxation time for retirement--and
then finding out it is too late in their lives to be of much use.
In the sample conclusion above, the topic of the paper is vacation
starvation. This conclusion sums up the key points presented in the
paper but takes it one step further by providing some evaluation of
the thesis. The writer says, “the alarm clock is ringing loud
and clear, but no one is paying attention. Today, most Americans are
saving their relaxation for retirement—and then finding out
it is too late in their lives to be of much use.” As in the
example above, this strategy can be very effective if you want to
draw an inference from or a conclusion about your thesis.
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