Always perhaps a little exploitive, emotional appeals, nevertheless, provide incentive for action and reaction to compositions. Balanced by a carefully reasoned argument in the essay itself, the emotional appeal must be effected with tact and a sensitivity to the emotional limits of the reader. An emotional element that is too strong invites a reader's revolt. Use the last paragraph to state and develop the most striking or significant idea of the paper if, in doing so, the paragraph will punctuate the progressive sequence of ideas. Expansion Expansion places the main ideas of the essay in a broader context than perhaps the original discussion developed.
Expansion helps the reader to understand the fuller significance of the main ideas of the essay.
Use the last paragraph to explain the relationship of the essay to larger or broader issues to which the discussion is related. In other words, the echo creates a stylistic frame which suggests completeness and finality.