I've read thousands of conclusions. Not an exaggeration. Between my years teaching composition at a state university and later working as a freelance editor, I've encountered every possible way students attempt to wrap up their arguments. Most of them fail spectacularly. The conclusion is where I see the…
structure
I've spent the last eight years writing essays, editing them, teaching others to write them, and honestly, watching people panic about them. The question of how many paragraphs an essay should contain comes up constantly, and the answer I usually give makes people uncomfortable because it's not a…