{"id":526,"date":"2017-07-20T20:03:40","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T20:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/olemiss-writing100\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=526"},"modified":"2024-04-24T22:14:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T22:14:10","slug":"outcome-introductions-and-conclusions","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-writingskillslab-2\/chapter\/outcome-introductions-and-conclusions\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Effective Introductions and Conclusions","rendered":"Introduction to Effective Introductions and Conclusions"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you'll learn to do: identify strategies for writing effective introductions and conclusions<\/h2>\r\nA key piece of advice many writers either don't ever receive or don't believe is that it\u2019s not necessary to write introductions first or to write conclusions last. Just because the introduction appears first and the conclusion appears last doesn\u2019t mean they have to be written that way. Good writing is a recursive process, and even when a writer does put down the introduction first or the conclusion last, he or she will return to it frequently to see how it fits with the rest of the piece. Likewise, a writer may want to make a strong statement in a conclusion and, thus, write that section first, building the rest of the piece around it. Consider how some successful movies bounce around in time in a non-linear fashion to make the story more compelling. Your composing process can follow such an approach. 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Consider how some successful movies bounce around in time in a non-linear fashion to make the story more compelling. Your composing process can follow such an approach. Obviously your end product won\u2019t resemble a movie that starts in the middle of the story, but it can be a very productive way for you to build the pieces that will make up your final work.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-526\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Revision and Adaptation. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/\">CC BY-NC-SA: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike<\/a><\/em><\/li><li>Introductions and Conclusions.. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Jay Jordan. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>:  The University of Utah University Writing Program. <strong>Project<\/strong>: Open2010. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/\">CC BY-NC-SA: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":15005,"menu_order":16,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Revision and Adaptation\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by-nc-sa\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Introductions and Conclusions.\",\"author\":\"Jay Jordan\",\"organization\":\" The University of Utah University Writing Program\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"Open2010\",\"license\":\"cc-by-nc-sa\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"50b896ce-745f-4bcf-a8e6-87a02541e69c","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-526","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":503,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-writingskillslab-2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-writingskillslab-2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-writingskillslab-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-writingskillslab-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15005"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-writingskillslab-2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1609,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-writingskillslab-2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/526\/revisions\/1609"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-writingskillslab-2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/503"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-writingskillslab-2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/526\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-writingskillslab-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-writingskillslab-2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-writingskillslab-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-writingskillslab-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}