Impactful Concluding Sentences
Team Teaching with Dr. Louis: Introducing JSWP®
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The last sentence in a body paragraph. For literary responses, the CS is all commentary; for expository and summary paragraphs, it depends on the assignment or purpose of the piece and may include concrete detail, such as: predictions, connections, inferences, clarifications, and evaluations. For argumentation, the CS is all CM. The writer synthesizes the thesis statement, TS, CDs, CM into a re-assertion of the position. Do not repeat key words from the paragraph. Rather, use synonyms. For advanced writers, the concluding sentence synthesizes the salient points of the paragraph while also providing a finished feeling to the body paragraph's topic.
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Understanding the Chunk and the Ratio
The Chunk: It is the smallest unified group of thoughts in a paragraph that combine CDs and CMs. The combination depends on the RATIO for each mode. A paragraph may have multiple “chunks.”
The Ratio of concrete detail (CD) to commentary (CM).
Typically, for Response to Literature, Fine Art inte...
