Conclusions

Abstract

What key skills are needed when writing the Conclusions? One of my PhD students once remarked to me: I find the conclusions quite difficult to write, even in my own language. If I wrote everything in the paper, what should I add at the end? Her question sums up the dilemma that authors have with the Conclusions. It’s not that the Conclusions section is difficult to write, it’s just that authors don’t know what to write. In fact, several journals do not even have a separate Conclusions sections, authors simply write a concluding paragraph in their Discussion.