I've just looked at my thesis for the first time and years, and am surprised to discover that I didn't really bother with much of a conclusions chapter. I have a couple of short concluding paragraphs at the end of the last substantial chapter (basically, "in conclusion, this method works"). Then there's a two-page "Future Prospects" chapter, which is about how the work could be extended (though not necessarily by me). This chapter also serves to embed the work in the context of other current research ("This thesis used simplified model A in order to gain theoretical insight: those clever chaps over there have done a lot of work on complicated model B, and if you applied my technique with that model, you might get some interesting results").
My main advice would be "don't sweat it". A brief summary of what youve done in the thesis, and what you see as potential routes for future work based on your results, is all you need. I don't think you need to be terribly self-promoting in this section. Picture your reader as the poor 1st year postgrad who gets handed your thesis next year and told to continue the work.
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Date: 2004-12-10 06:16 am (UTC)My main advice would be "don't sweat it". A brief summary of what youve done in the thesis, and what you see as potential routes for future work based on your results, is all you need. I don't think you need to be terribly self-promoting in this section. Picture your reader as the poor 1st year postgrad who gets handed your thesis next year and told to continue the work.