5.10 Avoid pointless introductory phrases Often you can avoid an introductory phrase when it is preceded by a heading. For
example, immediately after a heading entitled Results, the following phrases would
be completely redundant.
The salient results are summarized in the following.
The results of this work may be synthesized as follows.
Let us recapitulate some of the results obtained in this study.
Likewise, it is pointless immediately under a heading entitled Conclusions to begin
by saying:
In conclusion, we can say that …