Okay, you’ve written your body paragraphs, but now you need to know how to write introductions and conclusions. You can learn about writing introductions and conclusions here!
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How to Write Introductions
Below are 4 steps on how to write introductions.
- Prelude: Begin your paragraph with a quotation, startling fact, and/or illustrative anecdote (short story). If you want to use a quote from a famous novel, Schmoop has ones for each novel.
- Example: “In 1960, 77% of women and 65% of men had, by the time they reached 30, passed all five milestones. Among 30-year-olds in 2000, according to data from the United States Census Bureau fewer than half of the women and one-third of the men had done so” (Hening).
- Shared Context: Describe the topic context or common belief.
- Example: The change from adolescence to adulthood is usually defined by completing these five milestones: finishing school, moving out of a parent’s house, paying for all expenses, getting married, and having children.
- Problem: Name the condition (the problem) and the cost (why the reader/society should care).
- Example: More and more young adults are moving back to their parents’ home and not having the five milestones completed. Some people believe that these adults are becoming lazy, do not want to face reality, and contributing to an unproductive generation.
- Solution: Say what the reader should do (for practical problems) or understand (for conceptual problems). This is your thesis statement.
- Example: In reality, prolonged adolescence and delayed adulthood is actually a good thing because it gives people the opportunity to learn new skills, a better idea of what career they want, and an opportunity to mature more before getting married.
Introduction Example
“In 1960, 77% of women and 65% of men had, by the time they reached 30, passed all five milestones. Among 30-year-olds in 2000, according to data from the United States Census Bureau fewer than half of the women and one-third of the men had done so” (Hening). The change from adolescence to adulthood is usually defined by completing these five milestones: finishing school, moving out of a parent’s house, paying for all expenses, getting married, and having children. More and more young adults are moving back to their parents’ home and not having the five milestones completed. Some people believe that these adults are becoming lazy, do not want to face reality, and contributing to an unproductive generation. In reality, prolonged adolescence and delayed adulthood is actually a good things because it gives people the opportunity to learn new skills, a better idea of what career they want, and an opportunity to mature more before getting married.
How to Write Conclusions
Below are 4 steps on how to write conclusions.
- Restate your thesis: Restate your thesis you used as the last sentence of your introduction. The best way to do this is to read your original thesis, and then write it again without looking at it.
- Example: Delaying adulthood is a good thing because it allows people to learn new skills, find their ideal careers, and mature before they get married.
- Restate the cost/why it’s important: Why the reader/society should care about what you wrote?
- Example: There are more and more people who delay what society considers adulthood, and they are often misunderstood.
- Propose the next step: What should the reader do now?
- Example: People delaying adulthood should not feel ashamed, and those that look down on them should recognize the benefits of this new lifestyle.
- End with an anecdote (short story), a fact (statistic), or a quotation (something someone else said).
- Example of a quote with a setup: There is no reason to rush into adulthood. As actor Ricky Schroder once said, “I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older, and now I’m spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.”
Conclusion Example
Delaying adulthood is a good thing because it allows people to learn new skills, find their ideal careers, and mature before they get married. There are more and more people who delay what society considers adulthood, and they are often misunderstood. People delaying adulthood should not feel ashamed, and those that look down on them should recognize the benefits of this new lifestyle. There is not reason to rush into adulthood. As actor Ricky Schroder once said, “I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older, and now I’m spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.”
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