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Okay and the last part of your discussion section will be the summary and the conclusion.

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And this is actually a relatively straightforward part as you're gonna see.

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So the goal of this part is to summarize what we have learned from your research and outline the next

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step after your research.

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So common expressions you'll find here are: "In the present article,

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we investigated..." so you remind the reader of your research question.

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"The results of two studies suggested that...". "Taken together, this offers a novel perspective on...".  "Future research

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may extend this work by..." and so on. So why is the section important?

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This section is important because... well, first of all, that's the last thing your reader is going to read.

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In addition, very often what readers do is they jump right away to that section to get a summary of what

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they can learn from your research and only if they like what they read in that section they will actually

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go through the effort of reading your whole article.

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Therefore, it makes sense to start with your research question. Then, in most cases I would go straight

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to the results and not mention the method anymore.

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And instead, I would devote more space to reminding the reader of the implications.

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What have we learned?

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What is the value of this research?

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And one thing you definitely don't want to do is mentioning limitations. Okay.

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And in many cases the best way to end your "Summary and Conclusion" section is by talking about future

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research.

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I already mentioned this briefly.

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The best way to demonstrate the value of your research is by showing that: not only does it have interesting

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implications - so this part - but it can also inspire us to create more amazing research. Especially since

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almost all of your readers will be researchers,

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they will definitely like that.

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So this is what you do in the summary conclusions section and that's already the last section of the

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discussion section. And in the next lectures, we're going to focus on the little things that still need

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to be done.

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The abstract the title and so on. So join me for that in the next section.