Attached is my essay so far. :)LessonIn this lesson, you will review the requirements of an effective conclusion for an essay.AssignmentFor the assessment, you will write the conclusion for your essay about the Effectiveness of Advertising and add it to your Research Graphic Organizer.ObjectivesAfter completing this lesson, you will be able to write an effective conclusion for your informative essay.

Discuss different patterns of behavior between men and women in public and at home, their different communication styles, relational styles, and expectations.In your Final Draft, you should include: Title, Abstract, Introduction, Three Body Paragraphs, Conclusion, Works Cited, and Self-Reflection.Use Headings: Abstract, Introduction, Main Part (Body Paragraphs), Conclusion, Works Cited, and Self-Reflection.Below, read the article "Sex, Lies, and Conversation" by Debora Tannen, and use it as one of you sources. Find two or three professional articles for your essay. Do not use any websites; use the articles written by experts. Essay structure:1. TITLEConnect your title with a hook (in your introduction) and your conclusion.2. ABSTRACTInclude an Abstract for your paper in MLA style. An Abstract provides a brief digest of the paper's essential ideas in about 100 words (3-4 sentences).How to write an Abstract:To that end, borrow from your Introduction: A. a sentence about the problem you are trying to solve in your project, B. a thesis statement/claim as a solution to this problem, C. borrow one or two significant sentences from your conclusion.In MLA style, place the abstract on the first page of your essay one double-space below the title and before the first lines of Introduction. Indent the abstract five spaces as a block, and indent the first line an additional five spaces. Use quadruple spacing at the end of the abstract to set it off from the text, which follows immediately after. You may also place the abstract on a separate page between the title and the first page of the text.Remember that the abstract is usually read first and may be the only part read; therefore, make it accurate, specific, and self-contained (i.e., it makes sense alone without references to the main text). Note this example of an ABSTRACT from a professional Journal: Child Abuse: A view of the Victim ABSTRACT This project examines the problem of child abuse, especially the fact that families receive attention after abuse occurs, not before. With abuse statistics on the rise, efforts devoted to prevention rather than coping should focus on parents in order to discover those adults because of heredity, their own childhood, the economy, and other cause of depression. Viewing the parent as a victim, not just a criminal, will enable social agencies to institute preventive programs that may control abuse and hold together family units. ABSTRACT This project examines the problem of child abuse, especially the fact that families receive attention after abuse occurs, not before. SOLUTION (THESIS STATEMENT/Claim of Policy): With abuse statistics on the rise, efforts devoted to prevention rather than coping should focus on parents in order to discover those adults because of heredity, their own childhood, the economy, and other cause of depression. Recommendation (a sentence borrowed from conclusion): Viewing the parent as a victim, not just a criminal, will enable social agencies to institute preventive programs that may control abuse and hold together family units. 3. INTRODUCTIONYour introduction is usually one paragraph. A weak introduction will cause readers to lose interest in your essay. A strong introduction, however, will make them care about the issues you are discussing and want them to read further. For this reason, an effective introduction usually includes a hook that creates interest.Also, in your introduction, you should establish the problem you are trying to solve in your project, explain how significant the topic under discussion is, explain what the purpose of your project is, acknowledge the audience, describe what the needs and values of this audience are (one sentence), and frame your thesis statement. Your thesis statement should provide a solution to the problem. I. hookII. problemIII. significanceIV. purpose ( to inform, to argue, or to persuade)V. audience VI needs and values of the audienceVII. thesis statement/claim (of value, fact, policy, definition).Here are several strategies you can use to create an effective hook:1. You can begin with background information if you are not required to write a page or two after introduction. Do not use this strategy in your introduction this time.2. You can introduce an essay with your own original definition of a relevant term or concept. This technique is especially useful for research paper, when the meaning of a specific term is crucial.For example: Democracy is a form of government in which people chose leaders by voting.3. You can begin your essay with an anecdote or story that leads readers to your thesis.4. You can begin with a questionFor example: What was a like to live through the Holocaust?5. You can begin with a quotation. If it arouses interest, it can encourage your audience to read further.Foe example: "The rich are different." F Scott Fitzgerald wrote more than ninety years ago. " Apparently, they still are". 6. You can begin with a surprising statement. An unexpected statement catches readers' attention and makes them want to read more.For example: Believe it or not, many people who live in suburbs are not white and rich.7. You can begin with a contradiction. You can open your essay with an idea that most people believe is trueand then get readers' attention by showing that is inaccurate or ill-advised.For example: Many people think that after the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1779, the colonists defeated the British army in battle after battle. This commonly held believe is incorrect. The truth is that the colonial army lost most of its battles. The British were defeated not because the colonial army was stronger, but because the British government lost interest in pursuing an expensive war three thousand miles from home. 8. You can begin with a fact or statistics.For example: Recently, the National Council on Teacher Quality released a report that said that of the 1, 400 teacher-preparation programs in the United States, 1,100 are inadequate.No matter which strategy you select, your introductions should be consistent in tone with the rest of your essay. If it is not, it can misrepresent your intentions and even damage your credibility. For this reason, it is a good idea not to write your introduction until after you have finished your rough draft.In summary: your Introduction should include 6-7 sentences covering:hook, problem, significance, purpose, audience, thesis. Do not include any personal reflection or personal examples in your introduction, body paragraphs, conclusion. Include them in a Self-reflection page.Avoid using "I" and "YOU".4. Write three Body paragraphs to analyze similarities and differences (250 word per each paragraph).Choose subject-by-subject or point-by-point comparison.Include the topic sentences and concluding sentences.You can use quotes, brief summaries, and paraphrase borrowed from the professional articles with the authors' names and page numbers; avoid using wikipedia and websites. Use the parenthetical citations to acknowledge all sources. Avoid plagiarism!Three body paragraphs should support your thesis statement. Your topic sentences should express the main idea of the paragraph, and concluding sentences should tie the whole paragraph together without simply rephrasing the topic sentence.Body paragraphs, the key building blocks of essays, represent distinct logical steps within the whole comparison/contrast essay. Body paragraphs should include supporting details. To support your topic sentence, explain the first supporting detail, give an example of the detail, and then unpack/interpret this example in a sentence or two. If you have several supporting details, repeat the same steps. Supporting details should be facts, statistics, quotes (from the scholarly articles).Use transitions to provide a bridge between a topic sentence and the first supporting detail, between new supporting details within the paragraph, and to introduce a concluding sentence. 1.3 Transition5. Conclusion (100 words), 2.3 Conclusion. ReadHow to write an effective conclusion:A separate concluding paragraph is necessary because a good essay should not stop in the middle. A conclusion gives a reader a sense of completion of the subject. Use the concluding paragraph to emphasize the validity and importance of your thinking. The concluding paragraph is your last chance to convince the reader. The conclusion may be the last part of your essay the teacher reads before putting a grade on your paper. Therefore, make your conclusion count.Flag that you are concluding the paragraph by offering a concluding transition.Briefly summarize your position (one sentence), your point of you.So or therefore..... While searching for an exit with proper emphasis and grace, here some suggestions that might spark some good ideas for your conclusion. The first four are mandatory to use; the rest is your choice.An evaluation of the importance of the essay’s subjectA statement of the essay’s broader implicationsA recommendation or call to actionA warning based on the essay’s thesisA quotation from an authority or someone whose insight emphasizes the main pointAn anecdote or brief example that emphasizes or sum up the point of the essayA rhetorical question that makes the reader think about the essay’s main pointA forecast based on the essay’s thesisAn ironic twist, witticism, pun, or playful use of wordsA proverb, maxim, or motto 6. Works Cited. Use 3 or more sources. Use MLA Format 0.1.3 MLA Format. Read . To find a Works Cited page, go to pp. 9-10 in 0.1.3 MLA Format.7. Self-Reflection. Evaluate your strengths and weaknesses as a writer and a critical thinker. Explain what you learned working on this project. Write one page.Text Entry and File Uploads: doc,xls,txtUse the article below, and find two articles on your own to support your thesis statement and topic sentences. You have to use at least three articles. Use professional articles only (with the authors' names).SEX, LIES AND CONVERSATIONBy Deborah TannenJune 24, 1990IWAS ADDRESSING a small gathering in a suburban Virginia living room -- a women's group that had invited men to join them. Throughout the evening, one man had been particularly talkative, frequently offering ideas and anecdotes, while his wife sat silently beside him on the couch. Toward the end of the evening, I commented that women frequently complain that their husbands don't talk to them. This man quickly concurred. He gestured toward his wife and said, "She's the talker in our family." The room burst into laughter; the man looked puzzled and hurt. "It's true," he explained. "When I come home from work I have nothing to say. If she didn't keep the conversation going, we'd spend the whole evening in silence."This episode crystallizes the irony that although American men tend to talk more than women in public situations, they often talk less at home. And this pattern is wreaking havoc with marriage.The pattern was observed by political scientist Andrew Hacker in the late '70s. Sociologist Catherine Kohler Riessman reports in her new book "Divorce Talk" that most of the women she interviewed -- but only a few of the men -- gave lack of communication as the reason for their divorces. Given the current divorce rate of nearly 50 percent, that amounts to millions of cases in the United States every year -- a virtual epidemic of failed conversation.In my own research, complaints from women about their husbands most often focused not on tangible inequities such as having given up the chance for a career to accompany a husband to his, or doing far more than their share of daily life-support work like cleaning, cooking, social arrangements and errands. Instead, they focused on communication: "He doesn't listen to me," "He doesn't talk to me." I found, as Hacker observed years before, that most wives want their husbands to be, first and foremost, conversational partners, but few husbands share this expectation of their wives.In short, the image that best represents the current crisis is the stereotypical cartoon scene of a man sitting at the breakfast table with a newspaper held up in front of his face, while a woman glares at the back of it, wanting to talk. Linguistic Battle of the SexesHow can women and men have such different impressions of communication in marriage? Why the widespread imbalance in their interests and expectations?In the April issue of American Psychologist, Stanford University's Eleanor Maccoby reports the results of her own and others' research showing that children's development is most influenced by the social structure of peer interactions. Boys and girls tend to play with children of their own gender, and their sex-separate groups have different organizational structures and interactive norms.I believe these systematic differences in childhood socialization make talk between women and men like cross-cultural communication, heir to all the attraction and pitfalls of that enticing but difficult enterprise. My research on men's and women's conversations uncovered patterns similar to those described for children's groups.For women, as for girls, intimacy is the fabric of relationships, and talk is the thread from which it is woven. Little girls create and maintain friendships by exchanging secrets; similarly, women regard conversation as the cornerstone of friendship. So a woman expects her husband to be a new and improved version of a best friend. What is important is not the individual subjects that are discussed but the sense of closeness, of a life shared, that emerges when people tell their thoughts, feelings, and impressions.Bonds between boys can be as intense as girls', but they are based less on talking, more on doing things together. Since they don't assume talk is the cement that binds a relationship, men don't know what kind of talk women want, and they don't miss it when it isn't there.Boys' groups are larger, more inclusive, and more hierarchical, so boys must struggle to avoid the subordinate position in the group. This may play a role in women's complaints that men don't listen to them. Some men really don't like to listen, because being the listener makes them feel one-down, like a child listening to adults or an employee to a boss.But often when women tell men, "You aren't listening," and the men protest, "I am," the men are right. The impression of not listening results from misalignments in the mechanics of conversation. The misalignment begins as soon as a man and a woman take physical positions. This became clear when I studied videotapes made by psychologist Bruce Dorval of children and adults talking to their same-sex best friends. I found that at every age, the girls and women faced each other directly, their eyes anchored on each other's faces. At every age, the boys and men sat at angles to each other and looked elsewhere in the room, periodically glancing at each other. They were obviously attuned to each other, often mirroring each other's movements. But the tendency of men to face away can give women the impression they aren't listening even when they are. A young woman in college was frustrated: Whenever she told her boyfriend she wanted to talk to him, he would lie down on the floor, close his eyes, and put his arm over his face. This signaled to her, "He's taking a nap." But he insisted he was listening extra hard. Normally, he looks around the room, so he is easily distracted. Lying down and covering his eyes helped him concentrate on what she was saying.Analogous to the physical alignment that women and men take in conversation is their topical alignment. The girls in my study tended to talk at length about one topic, but the boys tended to jump from topic to topic. The second-grade girls exchanged stories about people they knew. The second-grade boys teased, told jokes, noticed things in the room and talked about finding games to play. The sixth-grade girls talked about problems with a mutual friend. The sixth grade boys talked about 55 different topics, none of which extended over more than a few turns. Listening to Body LanguageSwitching topics is another habit that gives women the impression men aren't listening, especially if they switch to a topic about themselves. But the evidence of the 10th-grade boys in my study indicates otherwise. The 10th-grade boys sprawled across their chairs with bodies parallel and eyes straight ahead, rarely looking at each other. They looked as if they were riding in a car, staring out the windshield. But they were talking about their feelings. One boy was upset because a girl had told him he had a drinking problem, and the other was feeling alienated from all his friends.Now, when a girl told a friend about a problem, the friend responded by asking probing questions and expressing agreement and understanding. But the boys dismissed each other's problems. Todd assured Richard that his drinking was "no big problem" because "sometimes you're funny when you're off your butt." And when Todd said he felt left out, Richard responded, "Why should you? You know more people than me."Women perceive such responses as belittling and unsupportive. But the boys seemed satisfied with them. Whereas women reassure each other by implying, "You shouldn't feel bad because I've had similar experiences," men do so by implying, "You shouldn't feel bad because your problems aren't so bad."There are even simpler reasons for women's impression that men don't listen. Linguist Lynette Hirschman found that women make more listener-noise, such as "mhm," "uhuh," and "yeah," to show "I'm with you." Men, she found, more often give silent attention. Women who expect a stream of listener noise interpret silent attention as no attention at all.Women's conversational habits are as frustrating to men as men's are to women. Men who expect silent attention interpret a stream of listener noise as overreaction or impatience. Also, when women talk to each other in a close, comfortable setting, they often overlap, finish each other's sentences and anticipate what the other is about to say. This practice, which I call "participatory listenership," is often perceived by men as interruption, intrusion and lack of attention.A parallel difference caused a man to complain about his wife, "She just wants to talk about her own point of view. If I show her another view, she gets mad at me." When most women talk to each other, they assume a conversationalist's job is to express agreement and support. But many men see their conversational duty as pointing out the other side of an argument. This is heard as disloyalty by women, and refusal to offer the requisite support. It is not that women don't want to see other points of view, but that they prefer them phrased as suggestions and inquiries rather than as direct challenges.In his book "Fighting for Life," Walter Ong points out that men use "agonistic" or warlike, oppositional formats to do almost anything; thus discussion becomes debate, and conversation a competitive sport. In contrast, women see conversation as a ritual means of establishing rapport. If Jane tells a problem and June says she has a similar one, they walk away feeling closer to each other. But this attempt at establishing rapport can backfire when used with men. Men take too literally women's ritual "troubles talk," just as women mistake men's ritual challenges for real attack. {See box.} The Sounds of SilenceThese differences begin to clarify why women and men have such different expectations about communication in marriage. For women, talk creates intimacy. Marriage is an orgy of closeness: you can tell your feelings and thoughts, and still be loved. Their greatest fear is being pushed away. But men live in a hierarchical world, where talk maintains independence and status. They are on guard to protect themselves from being put down and pushed around.This explains the paradox of the talkative man who said of his silent wife, "She's the talker." In the public setting of a guest lecture, he felt challenged to show his intelligence and display his understanding of the lecture. But at home, where he has nothing to prove and no one to defend against, he is free to remain silent. For his wife, being home means she is free from the worry that something she says might offend someone, or spark disagreement, or appear to be showing off; at home she is free to talk.The communication problems that endanger marriage can't be fixed by mechanical engineering. They require a new conceptual framework about the role of talk in human relationships. Many of the psychological explanations that have become second nature may not be helpful, because they tend to blame either women (for not being assertive enough) or men (for not being in touch with their feelings). A sociolinguistic approach by which male-female conversation is seen as cross-cultural communication allows us to understand the problem and forge solutions without blaming either party.Once the problem is understood, improvement comes naturally, as it did to the young woman and her boyfriend who seemed to go to sleep when she wanted to talk. Previously, she had accused him of not listening, and he had refused to change his behavior, since that would be admitting fault. But then she learned about and explained to him the differences in women's and men's habitual ways of aligning themselves in conversation. The next time she told him she wanted to talk, he began, as usual, by lying down and covering his eyes. When the familiar negative reaction bubbled up, she reassured herself that he really was listening. But then he sat up and looked at her. Thrilled, she asked why. He said, "You like me to look at you when we talk, so I'll try to do it." Once he saw their differences as cross-cultural rather than right and wrong, he independently altered his behavior.Women who feel abandoned and deprived when their husbands won't listen to or report daily news may be happy to discover their husbands trying to adapt once they understand the place of small talk in women's relationships. But if their husbands don't adapt, the women may still be comforted that for men, this is not a failure of intimacy. Accepting the difference, the wives may look to their friends or family for that kind of talk. And husbands who can't provide it shouldn't feel their wives have made unreasonable demands. Some couples will still decide to divorce, but at least their decisions will be based on realistic expectations.In these times of resurgent ethnic conflicts, the world desperately needs cross-cultural understanding. Like charity, successful cross-cultural communication should begin at home.Deborah Tannen, professor of linguistics at Georgetown University, is the author of "You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation," published this month by William Morrow.