RP: Conclusion & Recommendation

These focus on addressing your research questions.

• A. Summary

• B. Conclusions

• C. Recommendations

• D. Abstract

Which among the following qualities if a good conclusion pertains to highlighting key findings in your analyses that advance new understanding of the research problem?

• A. Presenting the issues addressed by your study

• B. Summarizing your thoughts and conveying the larger significance of your study

• C. Identifying how a gap in literature has been addressed

• D. Demonstrating the importance of your ideas

True or False: Summary and Conclusion are the same

• A. True

• B. False

ODD-ONE-OUT: Writing a Conclusion

• A. Use clear and simple language

• B. Provide a synthesis of your arguments

• C. Answer your Research Questions and problems

• D. Give proposals based on findings

This includes the main points of your study

• A. Summary

• B. Conclusions

• C. Recommendations

• D. Abstract

TRUE OR FALSE: Recommendations have two types, Informative and Descriptive

• A. True

• B. False

TRUE OR FALSE: Recommendations are implications based on findings.

• A. False, because recommendations are concise summary of the paper

• B. False, because recommendations are suggestions based on findings

• C. True, because recommendations provide implications

ANALOGY - Conclusions : So What?; Recommendations : __________

• A. What happened?

• B. What’s next?

• C. How did that happen?

• D. Since when?

ANALOGY - Conclusions : Research Questions; Recommendations : __________

• A. Statement of the Problem

• B. Abstract

• C. Conclusions

• D. Overview

These are given to propose new practices and/or policies and to fill future literature gaps.

• A. Summary

• B. Conclusions

• C. Recommendations

• D. Abstract