DRAWING CONCLUSION 22.2.12

Drawing conclusions is a form of critical thinking. It is relating what you see, hear and read to what you already know.

Follow these steps :

1.    Read  the paragraph and identify the topic sentence and main idea.

2.    Look for supporting details as evidence that you can use to reach a conclusion (E.g of evidences are: facts, statistics, reasons, definitions and descriptions.

3.    Combine your prior knowledge with the supporting details to draw conclusions.

4.    Ask these questions:

       - What is the writer trying

          to prove?

       - What is the consequences       

         of these events?

       - What is going to happen 

         because of these actions?

       - What can I conclude from

         the paragraph?

But sometimes conclusions are pointed out in the paragraph itself

Here are some expression that point to a conclusion:

ü  Prove that

ü  Thus

ü  It is believed that

ü  In fact / Because of this

ü  It follows that

ü  It concludes that

ü  As a result

ü  Therefore

ü  We can conclude that

ü  Points to the fact that