Articles for Practice Writing Conclusions

Articles for Practice Writing Conclusions

Please select any THREE of these articles, and practice writing a conclusion to this article, based on the article's content.

You are recommend to take the following questions into consideration when writing a conclusion:

1. What was the initially-proposed goal or hypothesis of the research?  Was the primary research question answered?
2. What were the main results/implications of the research presented?
3. What key context of setting or background is necessary to understand the final results?
4. What methods/procedures, if any, are necessary to be able to understand the implications?
   
5. How can this all be summarized concisely, while emphasizing the results/implications, without repeating text from the abstract or introduction?

As you write your practice conclusions, you should be able to answer each of these five questions personally, but not necessarily all within the actual text of the written conclusion.

While there is a variety of subjects covered among the eight provided articles (petrology, sedimentology, seismology, climatology, paleontology, etc), you are strongly encouraged to choose at least one paper from outside of your own personal sub-field of interest, so that you may be exposed to a wider variety of research topics, and writing styles.  If you have any questions while completing this writing assignment, please do not hesitate to ask for help.