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Please refer to the previous content in  Chapter A.5 How to write; Conclusions 

The Conclusions section provides a brief summary of the results and discussion, but it should be more than a summary. After showing how each research question posed in the introduction has been addressed, the implications of the findings should be emphasized, explaining how the work is significant. The goal here is to provide the most general claims that can be supported by the evidence. This section should be reader-focused, avoiding a list of all the things that “I” or “we” have accomplished.

The Conclusions section should allow for opportunistic reading. When writing this section, imagine a reader who reads the introduction, skims through the figures, then jumps to the conclusion. The conclusion should concisely provide the key message(s) the author wishes to convey. It should not repeat the arguments made in the results and discussion, only the final and most general conclusions. While the results and discussion section is often quite long, the conclusion section is generally short.

The second goal of the conclusion is to provide a future perspective on the work. This could be recommendations to the audience or a roadmap for future work. A small amount of speculation can be appropriate here, so long as it is relevant and clearly labeled as speculative.

Some common pitfalls when writing the conclusion are repeating the abstract, repeating background information from the introduction, introducing new evidence or new arguments not found in the results and discussion, repeating the arguments made in the results and discussion, or failing to address all of the research questions set out in the introduction. Because a conclusion should be more than just a summary, I prefer “Conclusions” as a title for this section over “Summary.”