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  1. Guide to Writing the Results and Discussion Sections of a ...

    Tips to Write the Results Section. Direct the reader to the research data and explain the meaning of the data. Avoid using a repetitive sentence structure to explain a new set of data. Write and highlight important findings in your results. Use the same order as the subheadings of the methods section.

  2. How to Write a Discussion Section

    The discussion section is where you delve into the meaning, importance, and relevance of your results.. It should focus on explaining and evaluating what you found, showing how it relates to your literature review and paper or dissertation topic, and making an argument in support of your overall conclusion.It should not be a second results section.. There are different ways to write this ...

  3. How to Write Discussions and Conclusions

    The discussion section contains the results and outcomes of a study. An effective discussion informs readers what can be learned from your experiment and provides context for the results. ... Necessary information and evidence should be introduced in the main body of the paper. Apologize. Even if your research contains significant limitations ...

  4. How to Write a Results Section

    Checklist: Research results 0 / 7. I have completed my data collection and analyzed the results. I have included all results that are relevant to my research questions. I have concisely and objectively reported each result, including relevant descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. I have stated whether each hypothesis was supported ...

  5. What's the difference between results and discussion?

    The results chapter or section simply and objectively reports what you found, without speculating on why you found these results. The discussion interprets the meaning of the results, puts them in context, and explains why they matter. In qualitative research, results and discussion are sometimes combined. But in quantitative research, it's ...

  6. Research Results Section

    Research Results. Research results refer to the findings and conclusions derived from a systematic investigation or study conducted to answer a specific question or hypothesis. These results are typically presented in a written report or paper and can include various forms of data such as numerical data, qualitative data, statistics, charts, graphs, and visual aids.

  7. 8. The Discussion

    The discussion section is often considered the most important part of your research paper because it: Most effectively demonstrates your ability as a researcher to think critically about an issue, to develop creative solutions to problems based upon a logical synthesis of the findings, and to formulate a deeper, more profound understanding of the research problem under investigation;

  8. How to Write the Discussion Section of a Research Paper

    The discussion section provides an analysis and interpretation of the findings, compares them with previous studies, identifies limitations, and suggests future directions for research. This section combines information from the preceding parts of your paper into a coherent story. By this point, the reader already knows why you did your study ...

  9. 7. The Results

    Discussing or interpreting your results. Save this for the discussion section of your paper, although where appropriate, you should compare or contrast specific results to those found in other studies [e.g., "Similar to the work of Smith [1990], one of the findings of this study is the strong correlation between motivation and academic ...

  10. PDF 7th Edition Discussion Phrases Guide

    Papers usually end with a concluding section, often called the "Discussion.". The Discussion is your opportunity to evaluate and interpret the results of your study or paper, draw inferences and conclusions from it, and communicate its contributions to science and/or society. Use the present tense when writing the Discussion section.

  11. The Principles of Biomedical Scientific Writing: Results

    1. Context. The "results section" is the heart of the paper, around which the other sections are organized ().Research is about results and the reader comes to the paper to discover the results ().In this section, authors contribute to the development of scientific literature by providing novel, hitherto unknown knowledge ().In addition to the results, this section contains data and ...

  12. PDF Discussion Section for Research Papers

    The discussion section is one of the final parts of a research paper, in which an author describes, analyzes, and interprets their findings. They explain the significance of those results and tie everything back to the research question(s). In this handout, you will find a description of what a discussion section does, explanations of how to ...

  13. PDF Results Section for Research Papers

    The results section of a research paper tells the reader what you found, while the discussion section tells the reader what your findings mean. The results section should present the facts in an academic and unbiased manner, avoiding any attempt at analyzing or interpreting the data. Think of the results section as setting the stage for the ...

  14. How to write a discussion section?

    The discussion section can be written in 3 parts: an introductory paragraph, intermediate paragraphs and a conclusion paragraph. For intermediate paragraphs, a "divide and conquer" approach, meaning a full paragraph describing each of the study endpoints, can be used. In conclusion, academic writing is similar to other skills, and practice ...

  15. PDF Science Writing 101: Distinguishing between Results and Discussion

    Tips for Writing the Discussion Section. Start with the big picture - WHY is your study important? o Think of yourself as telling the story of how your findings answer the question you posed and why your findings matter, how your field's status quo or understanding is changed by your results. o Clearly signal that you are answering the ...

  16. Dissertation Writing: Results and Discussion

    Summarise your results in the text, drawing on the figures and tables to illustrate your points. The text and figures should be complementary, not repeat the same information. You should refer to every table or figure in the text. Any that you don't feel the need to refer to can safely be moved to an appendix, or even removed.

  17. Discussion

    Discussion Section. The overall purpose of a research paper's discussion section is to evaluate and interpret results, while explaining both the implications and limitations of your findings. Per APA (2020) guidelines, this section requires you to "examine, interpret, and qualify the results and draw inferences and conclusions from them ...

  18. Results, Discussion, and Conclusion

    The Results (or Findings) section follows the Methods and precedes the Discussion section. This is where the authors provide the data collected during their study. That data can sometimes be difficult to understand because it is often quite technical. Do not let this intimidate you; you will discover the significance of the results next. Discussion

  19. Research Guides: Writing a Scientific Paper: DISCUSSION

    Papers that are submitted to a journal for publication are sent out to several scientists (peers) who look carefully at the paper to see if it is "good science". These reviewers then recommend to the editor of a journal whether or not a paper should be published. Most journals have publication guidelines. Ask for them and follow them exactly.

  20. Research Guides: Writing a Scientific Paper: RESULTS

    Present the results of the paper, in logical order, using tables and graphs as necessary. Explain the results and show how they help to answer the research questions posed in the Introduction. Evidence does not explain itself; the results must be presented and then explained. Avoid: presenting results that are never discussed; presenting ...

  21. How to Write an Effective Discussion in a Research Paper; a Guide to

    Explaining the meaning of the results to the reader is the purpose of the discussion section of a research paper. There are elements of the discussion that should be included and other things that ...

  22. How to Write a Results and Discussion Section in Research Paper

    Results summary: In one paragraph, reiterate the research problem and briefly discuss your major results. Avoid repeating the data you already reported in the results section; clearly state the result that directly answers your research problem. Interpret your results: Your aim is to ensure your readers understand your results, how they answer ...

  23. How to Write a Discussion Section

    What not to include in your discussion section. There are a few common mistakes to avoid when writing the discussion section of your paper. Don't introduce new results: You should only discuss the data that you have already reported in your results section. Don't make inflated claims: Avoid overinterpretation and speculation that isn't directly supported by your data.

  24. Re-ranking Search results based on Relevancy weight: Approach and

    This paper gives an approach to construct a personalized web search system for a machine where more than one user accessing search results with variation in interest. To top rank, the relevant outcome based on one's attention, User Identification Based Personalization technique, is adopted where the results obtained from any search engine are ...

  25. Multiplex gene editing reveals cucumber MILDEW ...

    Multiplex gene editing of the CsMLO gene family.A) Expression pattern of CsMLO genes in CU2 plants after PM inoculation. hpi, hours postinoculation. Values are mean ± Se (n = 3 biological replicates) and 3 independent experiments were conducted.Asterisks indicate statistically significant differences to the expression of 0 hpi. *P ≤ 0.05; **P ≤ 0.01; ***P ≤ 0.001.

  26. Plasma proteomics identify biomarkers predicting Parkinson's ...

    Parkinson's disease is lacking easily accessible biomarkers. Here the authors show, that targeted blood proteomics is feasible to identify the patients and to predict the phenoconvertion in ...

  27. Identifying therapeutic target genes for migraine by systematic

    The results of phenome-wide research showed that HMGCR was highly correlated with low-density lipoprotein, and TGFB3 was primarily associated with insulin-like growth factor 1 levels. This study utilized MR and colocalization analysis to identify 21 potential drug targets for migraine, two of which were significant in both blood and brain.

  28. Epidemic outcomes following government responses to COVID-19 ...

    The current paper presents the results of nearly 100,000 reasonable ways of assessing the relationship between government responses and COVID-19 outcomes. Government responses are represented as individual policies such as school closures, or as indices that aggregate the intensity and type of several policies.

  29. Overview of High-efficiency Multi-junction Solar Cells and Discussion

    DOI: 10.1380/vss.66.97 Corpus ID: 256756560; Overview of High-efficiency Multi-junction Solar Cells and Discussion about Roles of Surface, Interface and Defects @article{Yamaguchi2023OverviewOH, title={Overview of High-efficiency Multi-junction Solar Cells and Discussion about Roles of Surface, Interface and Defects}, author={Masafumi Yamaguchi and Nobuaki Kojima and Yoshio Ohshita}, journal ...

  30. Bilateral gene therapy in children with autosomal recessive ...

    An interim analysis of a single-arm trial in 5 children with hereditary deafness shows that binaural AAV gene therapy is safe and leads to hearing improvement up to 13-26 weeks of follow-up.