Lesson 15: Drawing

of Conclusions
Meaning of Conclusion

Is a type of inferential or
interpretative thinking that
derives its validity, truthfulness, or
reasonableness from your sensory
experience.
Meaning of Conclusion

Touching, seeing, hearing, tasting, and

smelling things around you lead to a
particular conclusion about each of
those experiences.

The results of your sensory experience

are factual data to support the
truthfulness of your conclusions.
Drawing Conclusions
In your research work, your next move after
analyzing the data you have gathered is drawing
conclusions. This makes you form conclusions that
arise from the factual data you encountered and
analyzed. Any conclusions drawn or deduced by
you from facts or statements resulting from logical
thinking rather than from another assumption,
prediction, or generalization are the only ones
included in the conclusion section of your
research paper. (Decilo 2014)
Any conclusion that you give about what you found
out through your analysis of the data you collected is
a “warranted conclusion,” which explains how the
evidence or findings resulting from your data analysis
stands to prove or disprove your conclusion. And, by
and large, the best kind of proof to back up your
conclusion is one that is factual and logical or given by
correct reasoning. Downplaying, much less,excluding
warrants from this section of your paper reserved
specifically for stating conclusions about your findings
makes your readers cast doubts about the credibility
or genuineness of your conclusions. (Thomas 2013,
38).
Research is about discovering things and engaging
yourself in an exchange of theoretically supported
ideas with those in the academic world. And you state
all your discoveries in the conclusion section of your
research paper. But it is not merely making your
conclusions visible in your paper, but also making
these related with the claims or arguments of varied
research studies and written works you’ve subjected
to your RRL or review of related literature. Creating a
link between your discoveries and your review of
literature indicates the ability of your paper to expand
or enhance any existing knowledge about your
research study. (Harding 2013)
Pointers in Writing Conclusions

1. Explain your point in simple and clear

sentences.
2. Use expressions that center on the topic
rather than on yourself, the researcher.
3. Include only necessary items; exclude any
piece of information or picture not closely
related to your report.
Pointers in Writing Conclusions

4. Have your conclusion contain only validly

supported findings instead of falsified
results.
5. Practice utmost honesty and objectivity in
stating the results of your critical evaluation
of outcomes that you expect to support
your conclusions.