How To Be A

Better Writer!
Part Two
riting the Ending of an Essa
What is a Zinger
and Great
Conclusion?
• They leave the
reader with a smile
and possibly
something to think
about.
 Much like a
great train
begins with a
mighty engine!
You know the
train is done
when you see
the final car or
the caboose.
 Zingers / Great
• Mysterious
Conclusions are:
• Quote
• Humor
• Piece of fantasy
• Question
• Learn a lesson
• Everyone, all of us
 Mystery
Conclusion • No one is really
sure, but perhaps
example: someday we’ll find
out

• All the bats

disappeared. Who
knows where they
will show up next.
 Quote
Conclusion
• “It remains to be
example: seen how the earth
will survive in the
future” remarked
Professor E. Viro
Ment.
 Humor
• Whether the glass
Conclusion pitcher hits the
example: stone, or the
stone hits the
glass pitcher, it is
going to be very
bad for the
pitcher.
 Piece of
Fantasy
• So, just imagine
Conclusion how the people of
example: the earth would
fare without war,
poverty and famine.
 Using a
Question
Conclusion
example: • The next time you
have a bite to eat,
what will you
choose?
Learn a Lesson
Conclusion • Keeping a race of
example: people from their
freedom should
have been enough
for us to know the
future.
Everyone, All of
Us conclusion • The next time you
example: see someone be
rude to a
foreigner, think
what message that
sends out about all
of us.