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Online Technical Writing: Abstracts, Introductions, and Conclusions This site provides brief overviews with linked fuller explanations of abstracts, introductions, and conclusions.

Introductions and Conclusions (Adapted from A Beginner's Guide to Technical Communication). This site provides a brief discussion of both introductions and conclusions in technical writing.

Strategies for Writing a Conclusion This site provides a brief discussion about writing a conclusion including several suggested approaches.

Conclusions (Language and Learning Online) This site provides a brief discussion of conclusions with examples and analysis. You will need to click on the highlighted sections to view the embedded contextualization comments which are embedded.

Sample Conclusions

Listed below are pages with sample document conclusion; in most cases you will have to scroll to the conclusion:

• The Commerce of Content Management Report: Preliminary Report of "What Do We Manage? A Survey of the Management Portfolios of Large Technical Communication Departments."
• Global Security: Technical Implications and General Conclusions
• Demographic and School Characteristics of Students Receiving Special Education in the Elementary Grades This report's conclusion, naturally, is on the last page. The report will download as a PDF file. It was written by the National Center for Education Statistics, a division of the U.S. Department of Education.
• Consumer/Survivor-Operated Self-Help Programs: A Technical Report The conclusion to this report focuses on recommendations, but includes other elements of a conclusion as well. The report was prepared by a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
• The Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Transportation The conclusion of this report is titled, "Assessment Options." It has many of the features of a conclusion as described in Chapter 10, with a special emphasis on future actions. The report was prepared by a division of the U.S. Department of Transportation's Center for Climate Change and Environmental Forecasting. It will download as a PDF file.