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Okay now that you have hopefully thought about the content of your discussion section it's time to turn

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it into writing

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starting with the first paragraphs. And before you get started I encourage you to think a little bit

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about the structure of your discussion section.

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So there are generally two options: (1) you can write everything as one text or (2)you can write it with subsections

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and very common here is that papers have an implication section and a limitation section. And you need

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to have a look

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what makes the most sense in your case. And most likely this will be determined by how much you have

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to say about each aspect that we discussed before.

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Okay now let's start with the first paragraph of your discussion section and as I already said the goal

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here is to summarize your article up to this point. And common expressions you see here are: "In the present

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article, we investigated wether..." and then the research question. Or "Our study addressed the question whether..."

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and so on.

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"Our goal was to...". "The results showed that...". So this part is actually quite straightforward. It's just a summary

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of what you did.

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Then in the next paragraphs you go into the interpretation of your results and make sure that there

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is a switch in paragraph or section from the summary to the interpretation so that they are clearly

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separated and what you want to do is interpret your results

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and most of the time you will also immediately compare them to existing research. And when you do that, the

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most important point that you want to make clear is: what did you add to that research?

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So common expressions you'll find here are: "There are three possible explanations for these results"

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"One possible explanation is that...". "Another possible explanation is that...". "Our findings are in conflict with

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the long-held belief that...". So here we are comparing with previous research. "Contrary to the findings by

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Devin at all.

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our findings indicate that..." and so on.

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Or "Our findings converge with previous findings.

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In addition they show for the first time that...". So this is important: if your findings converge with what

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has been shown before,

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you want to make clear what you ADDED to those findings. So that is how you write the beginning of your

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discussion section and you can find more expressions for this part in the "discussion outline and writing

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template" that I showed you earlier.

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All right let's move to the next lecture.