From the course: Academic Research Foundations: Quantitative
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Explain your research results - SPSS Statistics Tutorial
From the course: Academic Research Foundations: Quantitative
Explain your research results
- The discussion part of your paper is the most important section of your paper. Even though readers may come to your research looking for methodology or data analysis, this is the part where you bring the entire study together. It's when you provide insight on effects of the experiment and the knowledge it produced that could benefit your field. A good discussion section will mirror your introduction by referring to the research questions posed. It uses the existing frame of the paper to outline how the study picks up from the problems presented in the introduction and takes them to a space of new information and knowledge. This is not a copy of your introduction, but a springboard from it. Writing about your results can feel overwhelming. So far, your study has constrained you and asked you to follow protocols and procedures meticulously detailing the problem and your process of research. In the discussion, this approach changes pretty drastically. You're no longer asked to outline…
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