Summary: Establish Additional Territory

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Let us recap the Goal of Establish Additional Territory. This Goal is used to expand beyond the principal findings and/or beyond the study specifics to discuss them within the broader context of the discipline. We may draw logical conclusions, evaluate the study, highlight the significance of the study, and/or recommend follow-up actions. There are two key Strategies that you may use to achieve this goal

• State Contributions is used to infer from results and to develop general claims and/or conclusions. Researchers can often do this by generalizing the results—by summarizing/synthesizing the results and/or making deductions that apply to a context outside of the present study. Contributions can also come in the form of implications which can inform the reader of potential applications or uses of the results, either theoretical, methodological, empirical, as well as practical. Stating the general value by demonstrating the noteworthiness of the study is also a way to show contributions.
• Finally, Proposing Directions is used to make recommendations and/or suggest lines of future investigations.

These final Strategies are arguably the most influential in expressing the overall relevance of the present study. Suggesting that the field has developed or grown because of the work conducted will help to solidify the importance of the study while bringing the manuscript full circle.