These sections of your coursework can be combined and I recommend this for the sake of keeping your word count low.
The conclusion/evaluation should explore your findings, noticing patterns, anomalies and significant aspects that can be (or cannot be) generalised (when you can generalise results, you are confident that a repeated investigation would find the same thing and/or that the finding is likely to be true of a wider pool of data e.g. all 10 broadsheet articles used a higher proportion of polysyllabic lexis than any of the tabloid articles, by at least 10%: this is fairly convincing as a generalisable finding to suggest that broadheets use a higher proportioin of polysyllabic lexis than tabloids; you might want to suggest why it might also not be generalisiable e.g. only certain topics were covered and it might not be true of other types of article). You are more likely to be saying why the findings can't be generalised and this will probably show more thought. If anyone says their hypothesis was proven, I will be very cross! Say to what degree your hypothesis was supported/contradicted.
You must try and examine why this would be the case, using tentative language and referring to context and any relevant theory that supports or contradicts your findings.
Evaluate which aspects of your investigation were interesting and why. Which aspects were flawed and what might have been a better approach (don't put your work down but acknowledge when something didn't work out as planned and see if you can explain why and what would have been more effective)? What might be an interesting approach to take to extend this research?
Show off your thinking - be mature and reflective but not self-critical - don't leave the reader with a negative impression.
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