What are the important points that should consider while preparing the discussion part of a thesis or dissertation?
Dear C.K Faslu Rahman ,
A discussion is an intermediate step in between your findings and your conclusion. It should organise your findings together in some way, possibly reflecting on them, and link them back to your literature review to validate them or to discuss why they may be different from other people's findings. This prepares the way for your conclusion which will appraise your overall findings in relation to your aim, objectives and research questions.
@Faslu As @Peter suggested, you need to discuss your findings in order of your hypotheses delineating what exactly can be inferred from these findings while conforming them with the earlier studies and the theory. Moreover, the implications of the findings for the theory and practice also need to to be discussed.
Dear C.K Faslu Rahman ,
I agree with Peter Samuels . Moreover, you should focus on each parameter of your research objectives and compare your results with previously published studies. Also, provide the significance difference and novelty of your research.
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I think discussion part of thesis is the heart of thesis where you defend your data with the related papers whom you have consulted while compilation
secondly it is an art of writing where you can put your idea of Research into practise...onwards we have to step by step correlate our data findings with the other research paper who are in congruence with our research and at last we have to provide a valid reason why my parameter was found significant or insignificant....
Thanks all of you. Your suggestions and advice are so valuable for me, as a budding researcher. Peter Samuels Imran Anwar Narashans Alok Sagar Rifat Bhat
You have been well-guided by Peter Samuels. Remember the discussion part is where you put in your intellectual thoughts to expound on your findings. Clearly bringing out how and why your findings are the way they are.
At this stage I used to counsel my students to think of three things, and present the material in order. Firstly, consider all the criticisms of methodology and practice that can be levelled against your thesis, and write a reasoned reply, citing other research, to set these questions to rest. That is, cut the legs off the unkind reviewer. Secondly, show, with appropriate citations, how your research sheds light on contemporary research on the topic - in the wider sense since nobody quite does research like YOU do, and answers questions that have been raised - or shows that the questions themselves were ill-formed. That is, demonstrate your contribution to what is known as the 'body of knowledge' of science. And finally, expand your horizons: explain the wider implications of your research and the kinds of questions you have opened up to show you are not just a technician but a Scientist (think Renaissance).
Please remember that your Discussion is the part which will stay longest in a reviewer's memory and which will form the basis for the evaluation of your work. So don't skimp time spent on it, and work hard to make it a resounding piece of original scholarship.
You are by now the domain expert in your subject matter and nobody knows it as deeply and thoroughly as you do. So demonstrate this, hold your head up high and shine your light. Good luck.
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