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Lead with the point and conclude with a comment

Concluding a paragraph with a comment can inject a bit of your personality and, at times, humor. A comment can also put a paragraph in perspective, create a bridge to the next paragraph, or reinforce your point after presenting a series of facts.

Geography is not geology, but they can be interlinked in surprising ways. Geographically, Sakhalin Island is part of the Russian Far East, though half of it was Japanese territory until 1945. Geographically, though, it is a northward extension of Japan and thus prone to the same sort of seismic ups and downs as the rest of that archipelago. Earthquakes are no respectors of political boundaries.

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