What to write in the conclusion of a research paper
How To Write A Conclusion For A Research Paper: A Structure For A Conclusion In A PhD Journal Paper
hello this is dr. Dave Maass like
talking to you about reciprocity calm
the e is with written with a three and
in this particular video I really wanted
to talk to you but how do you actually
write a conclusion for a research paper
I don't think I've talked about this
just yet I've talked about many
different other topics with the research
paper but not about how to actually
write a conclusion for a research paper
and sort of thinking about a simple
structure for a conclusion I've done
this with a lotta different papers now
it sort of fits and it sort of seems to
make a lot of sense and I think this is
and I've read a ton of papers now and
they all kind of have all of this sort
of structure and some are professor of
innovation strategy and entrepreneurship
and we do a lot of writing in academia
if you don't know that we're always
doing writing and all that kind of stuff
so this is what I do or this is what
I've tended to do this but especially in
the last couple of years and it seems to
work really well and it really revolves
around your research question so if you
haven't done that yet go and check out
the video about when I was talking about
with my research questions and as well
is go make sure that you actually have a
research question before you actually do
any particular research or anything like
this
so again this video would be helpful for
people that are in an undergrad or doing
graduate work as well that are thinking
about doing a research paper so state
your research question question whatever
it is and sort of have a good idea of
what the research question is right at
the beginning of the the the first
sentence of the conclusion just have you
know maybe restate it in some sort of
way then you want to state the
particular theory so you you say in this
particular paper I sought to find the
reasons why the Sun is yellow and then
you would state after that the second
sort of part of a state you know what is
the theory that you're using so
using the particular theory about
sunshine my I was I investigated the x
y&z of why the sunshine is actually
yellow or why the Sun is actually yellow
then once you have that so once you
start the state the theory and so I have
a basic framework then you go in and say
well based on this particular research
method or based on the findings in this
particular paper we were able to resolve
XY and Z so we were able to sort of
solve the particular issue and this is
what the findings were so the third part
is stating what your particular findings
were this are really broad overview then
you want to go in the next sort of
sentence is to go in and give a big
picture of where you think future
researchers can take this particular
thing so using using this particular
theory and these particular results of
identifying that the the Sun is yellow
because of XY and Z I believe future
research should be able to take this in
this particular direction it can be
these particular findings are very very
useful for X for these kind of
researchers that are using this kind of
methodology and they should pursue this
then at the end the sort of last
sentence of the structure of the
conclusion is just state a big idea
something really big and broad and it
could be really kind of loose and not
like you know it's not really all that
scientific and and say something this
this results in there being many
different these findings indicate that
there are still many loose ends to to
study to further study in to develop in
and get a better sense of why the the
Sun is yellow so getting into much more
in depth or or getting in kind of a
really broad overview but also
indicating that there's lots of
different
routes of research left for people to
build on the particular study that
you're doing so remember what you're
trying to do with any particular
research study is not only sort of
investigate this particular finding or
investigate what's going on but then as
well have other peoples are built on the
research that you did and by sort of
indicating that there's lots of
different things that you can study that
opens up many more avenues for people to
pursue and sort of deep dig deep a
little bit further so really if you sort
of follow those five different steps you
know first one is stating your research
questions second one is stating the
particular theory to investigate that
research question the third thing is
stating your findings the fourth thing
is stating this sort of big picture of
where you think researchers should go
with the particular findings and then
the last one is ending with a really big
picture of what's going on and stating
that there's lots of different loose
ends to sort of investigate if you have
this structure for a research paper
conclusion or the conclusion of a
research paper you can really go a long
ways and it's a really simple structure
but it is quite effective and I've seen
this done hundreds if not thousands of
times this particular structure and
again every paper is different but
they're loosely kind of along this lines
in terms of developing a particular
research paper conclusion so that's it
hopefully you like this this video for
Monday writes and I'm looking forward to
seeing you on the next video bye
