As noted above, for many short research articles, youcan put your discussion and your conclusion in a single textso as to espouse a tighter structural organization. For bigresearch projects as you may experience in your thesiswriting, an independent conclusion part is both academi-cally and institutionally required. A text like this will offeryou precious discourse space to show the big harvest ob-tained by your hard work in research.
Moreover, a well-organized conclusion part will becomea good evaluation system on its own so that all your relevantwork in this academic enterprise can be objectively judgedand scientifically evaluated by providing a convenient accessto a conclusive summary of the findings observed, resultsobtained, limitations existing, reflections made, implica-tions for others work, and prospects for your future study.
Finally, some major conclusions you may draw in thispart will possibly be re-presented in your abstract text. Ifother scholars in your field find some interesting clues ingoing over your abstract and impressed by your findings andconclusions reported in this mini-text, they may refer to theoriginal text for more detailed information. Therefore, for aserious researcher, a good conclusion means a lot of thingsin his/her research practice.
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