As i know several young researchers face problem in writing discussion specially in ecological journal which need interpretation and comprehensive discussion!.
In general some rules already mentioned like starting from our results and increase generality, relation to main structure designed in introduction, writing the gaps and future questions. However, this is not enough and high ranked journals looks for professional discussion format.
it would be nice to know your idea about following points:
How we should start discussion? summarize the main output, divide discussion to several part exactly from start and discuss separately.
How to avoid repeating structure of introduction and results part in discussion? mainly in most article introduction will divide in several separated question which we want to answer in results and discuss. the only art now is avoiding repeating..
What is the best structure for discussion? the most important part is the structure to decide about position of paragraphs in the discussion.
Simple book section or lecture- there are several books about academic writing but it would be nice to introduce book section or lectures which could be useful for ecological discussion.
Warm regards,
Mehdi