Drawing a conclusion requires combining what is known (schemas) with new information from a text. A conclusion is the decision reached by synthesizing these two elements. To draw an effective conclusion, one should look for clues in the text, identify connections between pieces of information, apply prior knowledge, and consider both stated and implied details. The conclusion should be an inference, judgment, or opinion made after comprehensively analyzing all available information. The example provided illustrates this process, where combining what is explicitly stated with background knowledge leads to the conclusion that a classmate was suspended for cheating based on being seen leaving the dean's office with his parents and then not returning to classes.

1. DRAWING
CONCLUSION

2. ◦When you draw a conclusion you use two things:
1. schema - what you know about the situation or
about the world
2. new information – what you have read in the
text.
A conclusion is the decision you arrive at
when you fuse these two.

3. ◦Making inferences means “ making an implication”
◦Drawing conclusion is putting is putting together
the factual information to arrive at a certain truth.
◦Hence, when you draw a conclusion, you are
making a judgement or an opinion or a decision
after considering all the information read.

4. TIPS TO EFFECTIVELY DRAW A CONCLUSION
1. Look for clues in the selection
2. Establish connections between pieces of information
3. Activate you prior knowledge
4. Discern if what you know applies to the selection
5. Consider information that is implied or is not directly
stated
6. Capitalize on all of what you know to draw a
conclusion

5. To Illustrate :
Your teacher caught your classmate cheating
during the major examination. The following day,
you saw him coming out of the Dean’s Office
together with his parents. The next day your
classmate did not attend your classes anymore.
◦Why do you think your classmate did not attend
your classes anymore?

6. What do you know from the
selection?
 Your classmate was caught cheating.
 His parents were summoned.
 He did not attend your classes anymore.

7. What do you know from your own life
and how is this related to the selection?
 students who cheated are called by the dean
together with his parents.
 students who cheated are sanctioned.

8. Make an inference
 your classmate was suspended or
expelled because of cheating.

9. Draw a conclusion
 Cheating is bad and has a corresponding
punishment.

10. Reference
◦ Alejandro, Bernardo. Developmental Reading. Rex
Publishing Inc.. Sampaloc, Manila. 2013