The conclusion is really the most important part of an essay, although ones conclusion should be apparent from the outset. Treating ones academic writing like a murder mystery novel is an erroneous undertaking, withholding the enlightening statement until the final paragraph to be unveiled with a “and I would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for you meddling kids” is immature and unprofessional. But then how, I ask, am I to plan my essay so thoroughly that I know where I will end up before I get there? Writing, for me, is a transformative process in which my ideas, by being committed to the page, arrange themselves to sit alongside each other. I feel that links and connections between ideas occur on a macro level, employing specific, delicate wordings and lexical leaps of faith to convey the gossamer threads of intrigue and internal discovery that make an essay worth reading. I hope sincerely that the conclusion to my essay will make itself apparent sooner or later. The lack of an initial question within the title leaves the conclusion in a slightly ambiguous place. I am confident that I will triumph over the conclusion.

//written on paper 6 days prior to this post//