How do I draw up the conclusion?
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The conclusion wraps up your paper. It can, in fact, be considered a brief, concise summary of the previous summary. Here, you focus on the result of your research and the answer to your research question. You once more present the exact formulation of the research question and answer it. The conclusion gives an overview of the entire paper, your key results, the answer to the research question, as well as suggestions for further research that can be derived from your paper.
Checklist
- What have you done?
- How have you done it?
- What has your research question been?
- What is the answer to that question?
- Have your conjectures and the (hypo)theses derived from it been confirmed or not? Why?
- Have you achieved the objective of your paper?
- What has remained undone?
- Which further questions have arisen from your results?