Conclusions refer backward; recommendations look forwards. This section is your opportunity to draw together all the threads of your work over the dissertation, referring of course to your dissertation aim(s).Summarise what you have found out from your literature review and your research.You may wish to refer briefly to literature which throws particular light on your conclusions, perhaps supporting them in some way. For high marks, the conclusions will also be ‘reflexive’; that is, what you have personally gained from your dissertation; what you have seen as the limitations to what you did; and how you would do the work differently if you were to undertake it again.You may also include a ‘recommendations’ category. This may be relevant for example if your work has been of value to an organization and you wish to describe here the recommendations resulting from the research. However, the assessor will be looking for consistency between these recommendations and the conclusions in the previous section.