For your Discussion, you will use your articles and refer back to your Introduction to build arguments and conclusions about your research study findings. Your Discussion section will interpret and describe the significance of your findings in light of what is already known about the research area you're investigating. Your Discussion should include:
- Restate your research hypothesis from the introduction in different words
- Explanation of results: whether or not the results were expected (referring back to your Iintroduction), explanations for the results, and patterns and trends that emerged from your results and their meanings
- References to previous research: compare your results with findings from other studies (referring back to your Iintroduction)
- Use evidence from research sources to build arguments about what your study findings mean (referring back to your Iintroduction)
- Analyze your evidence and observations to show how they link to your broader research question (referring back to your Iintroduction)
- How would you improve this study if you did it again? How would you extend the study to further address your research area?
- End with a strong, final statement that explains what this adds to this research area and why we should care about your research findings
