As a faculty member in the Department of English, I have always asked my students to produce argumentative essays. Over more than three decades of teaching, I’ve added more and more non-traditional ...

If you think of your essay as a type of argument, persuading the reader to a particular point of view, then the conclusion can be a powerful way of bringing together the most important aspects of ...

here is a common outline for an argument called the Toulmin Method: The conclusion is very similar to the introduction in that it gives a general overview of what has been discussed. This section also ...

Be careful. Indicator words may lead you to a conclusion that is not necessarily the main point of the argument. For example, consider the following argument: "Don’t play with your pet turtle in ...