Published on September 15, 2022 by Tegan George. Revised on November 11, 2022. Recommendations in research are a crucial component of your discussion section and the
conclusion of your thesis, dissertation, or research paper. As you conduct your research and analyze the data you collected, perhaps there are ideas or results that don’t quite fit the scope of your research topic. Or, maybe your results suggest that there are further implications of your results or the
causal relationships between previously-studied variables than covered in extant research. Recommendations for future research should be: Overall, strive to highlight ways other researchers can
reproduce or replicate your results to draw further conclusions, and suggest different directions that future research can take, if applicable. Relatedly, when making these recommendations, avoid: There are many different ways to frame recommendations, but the easiest is perhaps to follow the formula of
research question conclusion recommendation. Here’s an example.What should recommendations look like?
Building your research recommendation
How can teachers at your local preschool ensure that social skills that contribute to maintaining peer relationships are promoted in children aged 1 to 4?
Conclusion
An important
condition for controlling many social skills is mastering language. If children have a better command of language, they can express themselves better and are better able to understand their peers. Opportunities to practice social skills are thus dependent on the development of language skills.
Recommendation
The investigation revealed that mastering language is an important prerequisite for mastering social skills. On this basis, future research should examine the
ability of language development programs to expand the language skills of children aged 1 to 4.
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How should your recommendations be written?
As a rule of thumb, try to limit yourself to only the most relevant future recommendations: ones that stem directly from your work. While you can have multiple recommendations for each research conclusion, it is also acceptable to have one recommendation that is connected to more than one conclusion.
These recommendations should be targeted at your audience, specifically toward peers or colleagues in your field that work on similar subjects to your paper or dissertation topic. They can flow directly from any limitations you found while conducting your work, offering concrete and actionable possibilities for how future research can build on anything that your own work was unable to address at the time of your writing.
Recommendation in research example
See below for a full research recommendation example that you can use as a template to write your own.
Recommendation sectionThe current study can be interpreted as a first step in the research on COPD speech characteristics. However, the results of this study should be treated with caution due to the small sample size and the lack of details regarding the participants’ characteristics.
Future research could further examine the differences in speech characteristics between exacerbated COPD patients, stable COPD patients, and healthy controls. It could also contribute to a deeper understanding of the acoustic measurements suitable for e-health measurements.
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