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If I want to conclude an essay and after finishing my ideas, can began with this clause  " As it has  been discussed above ............ " or this one " As has been discussed above ..............." ? When I drop "IT"

CalifJim · Accepted Answer

Drop "it". The standard phrase is "As has been discussed above, ...". Don't make up your own version!

You can include "it" if you mean "Because it has been discussed above, ...", but I strongly doubt you could mean this at the end of an essay.

CJ

Doctor D · Answer

I would not use the "above" wording at all. It's both stilted and occasionally inaccurate (what if you are reading your essay aloud? There is no "above."). You could say: "As I have already discussed"--but that is more for a return to an argument, rather than a conclusion. If you want to end in a summary of your arguments, go ahead and say something like" In summary..."

However, a summary is not a conclusion. A conclusion is the final idea that you draw from your individual arguments. It goes beyond what you have said so far. For example:

Movies are bad for us. (Topic sentence). They cost too much money to go to (argument #1). They put us in rooms where we could catch germs (argument #2). And theaters smell (argument #3). Therefore, we should stop going to movies (conclusion).

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