Another great set of Flash-based exercises from the E-Resources center at CUNY. Highly useful practice in formulating introductions and conclusions.

Introduction and Thesis

Concluding Paragraphs

Excellent and thorough discussion of many options for introducing and concluding an essay.  A somewhat scholarly tone, but not too difficult. 

Writing Introductions

Writing Conclusions

If writing introductions and conclusions is really making your nervous, take a look at this site.  Instructor Ella Bervan makes introductions and conclusions look easy in her step-by-step approach.  She readily admits that her method is not the only one for writing introductions and conclusions, but that it may help those who have trouble organizing their thoughts.

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Good strategies for introducing and concluding essays are provided here.  And help formulating titles, an under-emphasized skill, is also provided.

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This site offers exercises in writing introductions. Students are given topics and are asked to write introductory paragraphs for that topic; then they compare their answers with the instructor's answers.

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