Conclusions on essays?

Test Preparation
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<p>i always have this problem with timed anything, i'm kind of OCD and ADD so i like get distracted and then end up spending 5 minutes deciding on a word choice... not a good combo.</p>

<p>i did have a conclusion but it was like 2 sentences, and i almost ran out of time so i had to cut my 2nd example a little short as well. my intro was wicked long.
ehh.</p>

<p>whatever though, i used a lot of vocab and what i had was pretty good for an in-class thing.</p>

<p>i got the question about why work is good for structuring your life..
(did everyone get this?)</p>

<p>i used women working in factories while their husbands were fighting abroad during WWII, and the book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, in which the patients at the mental hospital got lethargic and felt worthless,etc because they had no work to structure their lives.</p>

<p>QUESTION: i also used a 3rd example, a personal one, in my intro (stupidly..i knew that was a bad idea), and then i didnt end up having tiem to write about it in the body.. is this bad?</p>

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<p>actually oxi, as long as the big words are not just totally random and out of context (like if you said something like "i think work is important. how loquacious!"), they do help your essay because its often people that really arent even exdperienced in essay writing who are correcting them, and if they see a big word their like ooh... (in a good way)</p>

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<p>hilary, I did the same thing as you (mentioning an exampple in the intro and then not using it), so I hope not. I had the work essay too, by the way.</p>

<p>I just worry that because I had just finished the last example paragraph and not started the conclusion, the reader will think I just didn't feel like doing a conclusion and they won't know I ran out of time. I was going to go back and write "Not enough time" but the proctor was sitting right behind me and I didn't want to risk it.</p>