Different authors in different disciplines conclude their articles in different ways. In this paper we illustrate this statement with examples and suggest that one particular way of clarifying the conclusions of articles in the sciences and social sciences is to print them using bullet points. We present as examples the conclusions from four papers with accompanying revised versions so that readers can judge the validity of this argument for themselves.
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