Persuasive Essay Work – Final Body Paragraph into the Closing
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It’s important to transition from your final body content reason paragraph into
your closing paragraph
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Be sure to RESTATE all the REASONS you wrote about in your body paragraphs
from the paper (remember that each body paragraph was about only ONE reason –
with appropriate details, examples, etc. to prove your case)
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End your paper strongly AND be sure to have your LAST sentence of the paper
(also called the last sentence of your closing paragraph) RESTATE THE
POSITION STATEMENT – This is called your “CALL TO ACTION”)
Body Paragraph #3 (for the reason of “respect”)
As if safety weren’t enough on its own to ban hats from a school building, one should consider the whole
“respect” issue at hand. There are many folks who believe that wearing a hat in any building shows a
lack of respect for the building itself. The inside of a school is already considered a nice shelter from the
possible bad weather (rain, snow, sleet, wind) and bright sunshine, so there would be no need to wear a
cap inside to protect one from these elements. Typically the inside of a school has a steady, comfortable
climate with nothing that will mess up a person’s hair, nor are lights on the inside of a school usually too
bright to blind someone. Hats are simply just not needed. Not wearing a hat inside a school for these
reasons shows a respect for the comfortable confines of that building. Since one wouldn’t wear a hat
inside a school due to all these reasons, the teachers and other personnel (“hosts/owners”) could also
entertain their guests (“students”) and be able to enjoy their company with more of a “formal” approach;
therefore, because it a long-standing belief by some that hats worn inside a building show a lack of
respect toward a host/owner, this is yet another aspect of the respect issue. A hat tends to usually look
“casual” in appearance and can be seen as sloppy to some, so a host/owner of a building would be able to
be in the company of someone who is showing respect to the host by not wearing a hat and presenting
themselves with a neat, groomed, respectful appearance. There are also some folks who have a belief that
the more formal and neat one appears, there is a more formal, serious approach to performing a task –
such as the serious business of teaching/learning! Since teaching/learning are the business of a school,
and the interior of a school building is free from inclement weather and excessive brightness, students –
out of respect for the school and the teachers/staff – should simply not be allowed to wear hats!
Closing Paragraph (transitioned from the reason #3 – “respect”)
Respect is such a huge part of the whole teaching/learning process of a school, and all those people in this
process deserve each other’s best when it comes to appearance and attitude. Hats simply tend to lend
themselves to a more informal display of each of those traits, and when you add in the safety concerns
that accompany the wearing of a hat inside a school building due to the lack of respect and courtesy of
some who thinks it’s okay to take someone else’s hat, then you have a recipe for disaster inside a school
building. The only “disaster” that should take place inside a school is when students don’t learn, and,
unfortunately, the wearing of a hat in school can lead to this; therefore, hats should not be allowed inside
a school building!
(In the above closing paragraph, I transitioned from the “respect” body paragraph. By doing that, I
already “restated” that reason, so all I had left to do was “restate” my reasons of “safety” and “teasing”;
then I would need to “restate my position statement” – which is the CALL TO ACTION - as my last
sentence of the paragraph/paper. Along the way, I also gave a couple more minor sentences dealing with
“BK” – background knowledge – to further make my point. Hopefully my paper at least made the
people who would allow hats in the building at least see/hear other points that maybe they didn’t know
about before and make them at least understand where I’m coming from. Maybe – JUST MAYBE – a
few of them might even change their mind )