A conclusion has three jobs in order — signal closure, restate and compress, and end on a written clincher — and five familiar ways to leak the room. Click lines to assemble your ending, reorder them, and watch the checker grade the order, the leaks, and the very last word you say.
Your speech opened with this. “Aisle six, a Tuesday morning, and a man in a green jacket goes down between the cereal and the coffee. My sister is nineteen. She is the only person within thirty feet who knows what to do with her hands.” The story was left deliberately unfinished.
Click a line to add it to your ending
Nothing to land yetAdd a closure signal first. An audience that cannot tell you are ending will sit in silence when you stop.
Your ending, in order
As the room hears itNothing yet.
—The last word of a speech is the one with the most weight on it. Add a final line and this panel weighs it.
Everything after the closure cue should run under sixty seconds.