University:
Kentucky State University
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ENG 216 | Technical Writing
Academic year:

2024
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194

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18
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Tyshawn Shaffer

Part 3: Report Concluding Section Concluding Section     The concluding section is where you tell your readers what you have told them. The Summary and Abstract are concise recapitulations (summarize) of the report content. The Title is the punch line and is most effective when short and informative. Each of these parts is important because of its potential to reach a different group of readers. Each should be written clearly and concisely. Concluding Section It is common practice in technical report writing to end the main text with a concluding section. Concluding Section  In spite of skillful writing ,the readers may become confused or overwhelmed by : the larger number of details in a complicated report. Clearly the writer needs to bring out the most important facts and discuss their significance. Concluding Section  Many busy people read the concluding section of a report first.  On the strength of this reading they may become interested in the details, or they may discard the entire report. Concluding Section  Therefore, the concluding section must be: 1) self-contained 2) independent of the main body of the report. 3) Preferably it should be so worded that a person not completely familiar with that particular branch of science can understand what was learned from the investigation Concluding Section A few ground rules should be observed in writing the concluding section: 1) Do not use undefined symbols. 2) Do not cite equations, tables, figures, references, and appendixes. 3) Do not introduce new material. Concluding Section  The common subsections for this section are: – – –  Summary of Results Conclusions Concluding Remarks These subsections connote (mean ,imply) somewhat different contents distinguished by the degree of generality and certainty of the material included in them. Concluding Section   Since statements made in this section are often quoted by other investigators, each statement should be critically evaluated for accuracy and clarity. A useful stage-setting approach to the concluding section is to briefly state the purpose and scope of your work. Concluding Section 1. Summary of Results     The summary of results is the most straightforward concluding section: It simply restates the major findings of the investigation. All of the material presented must have appeared in the main body of the report. A frequently used method is to itemize the main factual results, usually in single sentences. The facts given are supplied from experimentation or theory ------ but not from any reasoning (i.e. they are not deduced). Concluding Section 2. Conclusions      The usual form of reasoning in reports is to draw a conclusion from a series of facts. Conclusions should be general. They should not depend on the particular conditions of the report. If more than one conclusion is drawn, present them in order of importance. After the conclusions are written, examine every word and sentences critically to ensure that it means what you intended it to mean. Do not conclude already known facts and also do not confuse conclusions with results. Concluding Section 3. Concluding Remarks  When it is not possible to draw adequate clear-cut conclusions, a concluding remark sub-section may be used. Concluding Section Concluding Remarks With this approach (using Concluding Remarks) you are : 1- not constrained by the connotations of the heading “Summary of Results”, and “Conclusions”. 2- free to give opinions, to evaluate and recommend. Of course the views you express should be based on the information provided by your investigations.  Concluding Section    Sometimes both a Conclusion Remarks and Summary of Results sub-sections are used. Dual concluding sections allow a concise summary of the major results as well as speculations or recommendations. When both sections are used, the summary of results usually precede the concluding remarks as a “further discussion” of the results. Examples Examples Example1:Conclusion Conclusion From the foregoing discussion of the results it can be concluded that with proper adjustment of the parameters so far mentioned, a high level of conversion of hydrojen sulfide to elemental sulphur can be obtained. One set of parameters which gave more than 99.9% conversion of hydrojen sulfide is given for each gas mixture employed in the laboratory scale operation. These conditions may not represent the optimum set of commercial operation. However, they demonstrated that by combination of the parameters, high conversion levels could be obtained. Example2: Conclusions and Recommendations

Lecture 4 Part 3 Report Concluding Section

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