Variation in How Conclusions are Presented in Different Disciplines

Social Science

This writer calls their final chapter “Discussion & Concluding Remarks”

This writer uses simply “Conclusion” and offers no other details.

MPLS

This writer uses the term “Conclusions and future work”, and then offers the reader a lengthy and detailed breakdown of the moves within their conclusion.

This writer calls their work “Conclusions & Future Prospects”.

Medical Science

The final section of this Medical Science thesis is called “Discussion”, but note how the numbered subsections (6.1 – 6.4) resemble the conclusion model we offer here.

This writer calls their final chapter “Summary, discussion and conclusions”; they thus appear to amalgamate functional areas that other writers might treat separately.

Humanities

This writer provides a conclusion at the end of each chapter. The final section of the entire thesis is entitled “Epilogue”.

This writer uses “Conclusion” but then provides us with the page numbers of her final moves.

 

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