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Conclusions and
Recommendations for Final Report |
Conclusions:
Drawing conclusions is the main goal of writing your report. For readers,
the conclusion section often becomes the focal point of your report. This
is the part of your report readers read to understand the meaning of the
whole report. For some readers, it may be the most important section.
Nearly all reports need a conclusion of some type.
Your conclusions need to be based on the evidence you present in the body
of your report. When writing conclusions, consider these points:
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Keep them relatively short (usually a couple
paragraphs).
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Keep the level of technicality relatively low.
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Emphasize what the report means.
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Focus on the main results and what they mean. |
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Pull the analyses of your results together. |
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Interpret the overall meaning of your results
for the reader. |
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Explain the inferences you want readers to
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Add no new details.
Do not merely summarize the report.
Recommendations:
If your report leads to recommendations, you should include this section.
Sometimes, recommendations appear in the conclusion section; other times
the recommendations form a separate section. You need to consider what you
want to emphasize.
In a recommendation section you should answer these questions:
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What do you want the reader to do?
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What action(s) should be taken?
To make your recommendations work, you should:
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Base your recommendations on your conclusions.
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Keep them simple.
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Use a list for emphasis if you have two or
more recommendations.
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Consider tone. Remember that reports do not
make decisions; people do.
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Use “should,” “recommend,” or similar terms. |
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