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academic writer: organization: conclusions: suggestions for the future
Suggestions for the future
You may conclude your writing by pointing towards the
future. You can suggest what might happen. This a useful way of finishing
an academic paper where, for example, you want to avoid giving
your direct opinion or offering a ‘recommendation’.
(Recommendations are more appropriate for practical or professional reports.)
If you are talking about the state of research in an academic area, you might have
discovered a weakness or opportunity for further research. In this case you can point
towards what research could be done in the future.
EXAMPLE Notice the extensive use of 'could' and 'can'.
| Should the engineering curriculum at
university be exclusively technical? Many will argue that the engineering curriculum is so overloaded that there is no time to include modules on social content. What can we do? Teaching method could be changed: It could be problem rather than information-oriented. Examples could be taken from practice that integrate nontechnical information. Teaching could also employ the case method often used in law, architecture, and business. But engineering students can also play a part. They could be encouraged to learn about the world around them by reading good newspapers and nonengineering journals. As we strengthen engineering’s potential to contribute to society, we can market this attribute to women and minority students who often seek socially minded careers and believe that engineering is exclusively a technical pursuit. For engineers of the future, something radically new needs to be offered in schools of engineering. Otherwise, engineers will continue to be left out of society's decision making process. |
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