How to write a well-thought conclusion section of your manuscript for the journal?

Discussion and Conclusion

How to write a well-thought conclusion section of your manuscript for the journal?

The table below shows the essential elements of a well-thought-out conclusion. If the paper ends with a discussion instead of a Conclusion, these elements should also be present so that the contribution of the study to the knowledge gap is highlighted, along with a qualification on the generalisable limits of the findings.

Table Structure of Conclusion Section

M1 Summarise the study
  In summary, the research presented in this paper offers a contrastive text …

… investigated/ show …

M2 Evaluating the study
M2s1

 

Indicating significance What is new in our study is the links we try to find with …

Hedging using modal auxiliaries: can, could, may, maybe, might, ought, shall, should, will, would

M2s2 Indicating limitations

 

The present study has raised a number of interesting differences, but a larger corpus is needed to establish how far they can be generalized…

… limited to/ ignored …

M2s3 Evaluating methodology

 

Although results obtained from the H functions are not satisfactory, good results are obtained from the use of J functions…
M3 Deductions from the research
M3s1

 

Recommending further research Further research might be profitably conducted within a single discipline to determine the degree of variability according to subdiscipline, …

… recommend/ replicated …

M3s2

 

Drawing pedagogical implications The findings of this study may have some implications for the teaching of…

(Structure from Yang & Allison, 2003; Language features from Bunton, 2005; Swales, 1990; Swales & Feak, 2004)