I have obtained a review for conference paper. Comment of reviewer is as follows: The conclusion seems to draw more from the text than is elaborated. What does he mean by this? Do I have to response for that?
Think the reviewer might mean your research outcomes are similar to the literature you'd reviewed from journal articles, text books etc. The reviewer might want to see how's your research is unique in contributing to knowledge.
The reviewer might want you to elaborate further based on your empirical research to include the following in your discussion section of your paper:
How's your result findings different from your hypotheses established earlier?
How's your research outcomes different from literature reviewed?
Justify why & how such differences (above #1-2) are happening?
What are your research limitations & what are your future research recommendations (to bridge the above differences)?
How are you answering your research question(s)?
Are you achieving the research objective(s) that you'd set before embarking on the research?
I have obtained a review for conference paper. Comment of reviewer is as follows: The conclusion seems to draw more from the text than is elaborated. What does he mean by this? Do I have to response for that?
Think the reviewer might mean your research outcomes are similar to the literature you'd reviewed from journal articles, text books etc. The reviewer might want to see how's your research is unique in contributing to knowledge.
The reviewer might want you to elaborate further based on your empirical research to include the following in your discussion section of your paper:
How's your result findings different from your hypotheses established earlier?
How's your research outcomes different from literature reviewed?
Justify why & how such differences (above #1-2) are happening?
What are your research limitations & what are your future research recommendations (to bridge the above differences)?
How are you answering your research question(s)?
Are you achieving the research objective(s) that you'd set before embarking on the research?
The reviewer's word "the text" is ambiguous. However, the reviewer's sentence probably means this: The reviewer thinks that your conclusion is drawn from the superficial discussion not well based on your observation. So, you had better rewrite the section for results and discussion by attaching more importance to the facts you observed than the present version of the manuscript to make the derivation of the conclusion more natural and straightforward.
I agree with Dr. Han Ping Fung's answer. You should rewrite the conclusion section by including the major results of your research, how it is advantageous than the previous works, state whether you achieved the aim of your research, give the limitations/future works of the study. Avoid using same sentences for abstract ( or in other parts of main text) and conclusion.
If the text is a text that you refer to in the conference paper, or your own text for that matter, then the reviewer is saying that you are drawing conclusions that are not warranted by what is already elaborated in the text. You are either 'over-reading' the text or imputing evidence/discussion/reasons/argument/etc., that is not there.
In sum: they are saying that you have not drawn a clear line between your conclusions and what is actually available (elaborated) in the text in question.
Perhaps the reviewer means that the 'conclusions' are not really 'conclusions'. Real conclusions, the reviewer might think, must arise directly from the argument in the main body of the paper and that, in the reviewer's opinion, yours do not. Si I'm more or less with Tatsuo Tabata.
However, I'm only guessing. The reviewer's remark is less than clear and therefore not as much help as it perhaps ought to be. But maybe reviewers do not always see themselves as 'educators' but as 'adjudicators' or as 'contestants'.
Yes, a very common error. I agree with Ian Kennedy. Sometimes it is tempting to draw more and more widespread conclusions than your actual results/arguments/data in the text allows you to. As Ian Kennedy says, it should be easy to fix. Rewrite your conclusions with the aim of sticking more precisely to the conclusion your analysis provides.