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Conclusions and Reflection Topic

Once you have completed your field work and data collection, you will have to draw conclusions from what you have found, reflect on what those conclusions mean and finish writing your dissertation or thesis. The learning units in this topic will help you to both form conclusions from your findings and to explain them, as well as covering issues such as effective writing and presentation, defending your thesis in viva voce examinations, and thinking about what you might want to do after you have finished your research.

Writing options

A pen nibWhen writing for publication you are not limited to writing a peer reviewed paper about your research. Listed below are some other ways in which you could write for publication:

  • Report on empirical research
  • Innovation in practise
  • Audit of practise
  • Editorial
  • Book or book review
  • An e-learning resource, such as the Research Observatory
  • An opinion piece
  • A literature review
  • A theoretical critique
  • A letter to the editor of a newspaper or journal, or a response to a journal paper
  • Reflective writing

If you already know what you want to write about then your topic may lend itself particularly well to a particular type of writing; for example, an e-learning resource or an opinion piece. If you do not already have a topic in mind then you might like to consider what kind of writing you would like to do before deciding on a topic or, vice versa.

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