Okay and the last part of your discussion section will be the summary and the conclusion.
And this is actually a relatively straightforward part as you're gonna see.
So the goal of this part is to summarize what we have learned from your research and outline the next
step after your research.
So common expressions you'll find here are: "In the present article,
we investigated..." so you remind the reader of your research question.
"The results of two studies suggested that...". "Taken together, this offers a novel perspective on...". "Future research
may extend this work by..." and so on. So why is the section important?
This section is important because... well, first of all, that's the last thing your reader is going to read.
In addition, very often what readers do is they jump right away to that section to get a summary of what
they can learn from your research and only if they like what they read in that section they will actually
go through the effort of reading your whole article.
Therefore, it makes sense to start with your research question. Then, in most cases I would go straight
to the results and not mention the method anymore.
And instead, I would devote more space to reminding the reader of the implications.
What have we learned?
What is the value of this research?
And one thing you definitely don't want to do is mentioning limitations. Okay.
And in many cases the best way to end your "Summary and Conclusion" section is by talking about future
research.
I already mentioned this briefly.
The best way to demonstrate the value of your research is by showing that: not only does it have interesting
implications - so this part - but it can also inspire us to create more amazing research. Especially since
almost all of your readers will be researchers,
they will definitely like that.
So this is what you do in the summary conclusions section and that's already the last section of the
discussion section. And in the next lectures, we're going to focus on the little things that still need
to be done.
The abstract the title and so on. So join me for that in the next section.