Hi all,
I have a question in regards to my discussion and conclusion section in regards to my master thesis. I am currently a few days before the deadline and starting to question everything....
I wanted to ask your opinions regarding the outline of the discussion. I start with a general discussion regarding my expectations and overall findings. After that, I start to explain my first hypothesis (the findings, that this means for the hypo and the explanation for the findings). Then I go to the second and third hypothesis and do the same.
Lastly, I finish with some strengths and limitations of the current study, theoretical and practical implications and directions for future research.
However, I am starting to doubt myself. However, sometimes I already discuss implications, important notes and directions for future research into the explanations for the separate hypotheses. Just because I think they are to small to add them to the specific section for future research and it just flows better in the sections. One particular suggestion for future research is specifically for my H2 and I received the comment from my supervisor to add this to the section about the second hypothesis.
My questions is, therefore, is it acceptable to already make small suggestions (or note implications) or should this be completely seperate.
I hope I made myself clear. Thanks in advance!!!
The thing you were following is a structured approach while what your professor says is an embedded approach. If you follow the first approach, you have more sections with lower depth. If you follow the second approach, you have a deeper and more comprehensive approach.
If you follow the second approach, its better to discuss everything from scratch and then explain your results one by one very comprehensively. The following template may help:
First, you mention the aim of your research. Next, explain what you did to answer your research question very briefly. Then, start explaining the results for each hypothesis. Further, elaborate on it: explain why this result is important, how it corresponds to other research and how and why its different and if so, what should be the future research and what is the implication for policy and practice
If you do so, you can finalize your research without including other parts (policy and future research recommendations) as separate parts. However, some schools have a structured format that limits the depth. In this case, you can listen the advice of the supervisor, but trying to explain other sections briefly after the main discussion.
In discussion section by way of compare and contrast discuss your findings in relation to existing state of the art or studies conducted in other contexts/countries.
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